Mohan Bhagwat Clocks It With GenZs Says Students Had Genuine Grievance For The Protest & Should Not Be Called Anti-Nationals

Mumbai: The grievance of the recent GenZ protest was genuine and there is a lot of work to be done within India's education system, said Rashtriya Swayamsevmak Sangh's chief, Dr. Mohan Bhagwat, while addressing young GenZ and Gen Alpha generation. He also supported the idea of protesting for one's demands and said that the students should not be called anti-nationals for it.

The sarsanghchalak of the right wing Hindu nationalist organisation, after less than two weeks of the nationwide student movement in Delhi, addressed a full house of over 2,000 people - largely school students from across the country. Speaking at the 15th annual championship conference of India's International Mission to Unite Nations (IIMUN) at Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in BKC, Bhagwat  spoke on a wide range of youth-favourite issues like education, uneployment, women empowerment, same-sex marriage as well as India's ties with Pakistan and China. 

Sharing his perspective about the recent GenZ protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar demanding education minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation and educational reforms, he backed the youngsters and said that GenZ expressed a genuine concern because and even though there is a need for change in India's educational system, nothing is changing. "In democracy, protest is the way to create consensus through dialogue.When discussion does not happen, we can choose to agitate but the only goal should be to evolve consensus, not to create division," he said.

He opposed against the usage of the term "anti-national" for the protesters, saying that today's generation needs logical answers and some love and their problems can be solved by holding a dialogue with them. "These students are not anti-national. They are our own children and we should hold a dialogue with them. The GenZ and Gen Alpha is more honest than our generation," he said, adding that if he had to blindly trust between counter-narratives, he will side with the GenZ.

In an interactive session with IIMUN's founder Rishabh Shah, Bhagwat highlighted the need to make education accessible, collective participation and training of teachers to improve the system. "Education is not a commercial business but basic necessity of life. The objective of education should be to raise a better generation, not to earn money," he said, adding that if the larger mass starts prioritising education, the government may soon allocate 6% of the union budget for education.

Bhagwat opposed the restriction on usage of social media for children, claiming that people need to practice self-imposed discipline in order to achieve results of the restriction. "Rules and discipline is necessary but first the youth needs to change its attitude. Only if they understand the importance of restricting the usage of social media, it will be able to serve the purpose, or else it will be consumed more through unauthorised ways,' he added.

The sarsanghchalak also advocated for Indians to hold civil dialogues with Pakistan and China, citing long cultural and historical ties between the three countries. "The ties can be put on hold during tensed situations but they can never be severed. Permanent hatred is not the solution but the Indian way of engaging in dialogues is the solution. The distance is created temporarily due to politics but at the end we will have tk be kne because humanity is one," he said.

Bhagwat also advocated for better laws to allow same-sex companionship but highlighted that the society will have to be educated about it to prevent any disruption. He also added that the role of women in equal and complementary in the society and therefore they need to be trained in equal capacity to men.

He reiterated his stand of supporting social reservation for education and jobs, saying that it will continue till there is social discrimination. "Reservation was brought to unite people but politics uses it to divide. It is for the uplifting of marginalised communities and politics should be kept aside," he said. He also highlighted the need of entrepreneurship within the youth, claiming that unemployment will end once the society stops differentiating between various professions.

The RSS chief also spoke on the pressing issue of climate change and highlighted that the available model of development is unsustainable. "The society wants development and environment both but if we stop development in order to save the environment, people will not have jobs. We have to change the model and proceed with development without harming the nature. If the society has to create a pressure on the government to initiate sustainable practices, it will have to start it from individual homes," he added.

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