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In an interview with India Today, 21-year-old BJP leader Neha Sharma discussed her transition from journalism to electoral politics after winning Ward 6 of Thanagazi municipality in Alwar by 101 votes. She explained that observing villagers travel repeatedly to the secretariat in Jaipur motivated her to step forward and represent them directly. Addressing the rise of young leaders in civic elections, Sharma highlighted that Gen Z representation marks genuine societal change rather than just media headlines. While responding to questions regarding youth protests and police action, she stated that the protests reflected demands for educational reform rather than political opposition. Sharma asserted that she will raise people's concerns independently, stating, 'पत्रकारिता मेरे जहन में है और जहां गलत होगा मैं बोलूंगी, क्योंकि जनता ने मुझे नेता बनाया है।' She maintained that questioning party decisions on public matters remains necessary for constructive change.

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00:01All right, joining me next is Neha Sharma. She's just 21 and she has won from the Alwar seat.
00:09So Neha, huge, huge congratulations.
00:12And I'm seeing here that you've won by a very small margin.
00:17You've won by 101 votes, so you've won by a whisker, as they say.
00:22I want to start by asking you this.
00:25You've been a journalist before 4 years. What do you think you've left journalism and joined politics?
00:33Thank you so much.
00:35And my first time, actually, my city, I lived outside the city.
00:46I studied outside the city.
00:49So I was a journalist outside.
00:51I worked on a good channel. I worked on a good style.
00:55Actually, on every level of Rajasthan, politically and department-wise, I worked on a good job.
01:02I worked on a good job.
01:02But when I came to the city, I thought that I came to my city.
01:08Because we are hoping that we need to change our city.
01:12We need to change our city.
01:12We need to change our leaders.
01:14But then I thought, why should I start myself?
01:16Because I've been doing this, I've been doing this for a very long time.
01:46people just order them, they wait for hours.
01:50So I thought that the people of the country,
01:52the people of the country, the people of the country,
01:53should be able to do their best.
01:57So I have taken this.
02:01You will see the headlines that Gen Z has been elected
02:06in the civic body.
02:08But if you look at the numbers,
02:10there are a handful of young people who have come
02:12to 10,000 candidates.
02:14There are a handful of young people who have been elected.
02:17So with your opinion,
02:20the Gen Z has been elected.
02:22You have also been elected for 21 years.
02:24It is a threshold for the election in our country.
02:27And you have jumped in that age.
02:30Some other people of Congress are independent
02:31who have been elected for 21 years.
02:34Does this represent something?
02:38And do you think this is just a headline
02:40that the media has made?
02:42No, no, no.
02:43This is not a headline in the media.
02:47It is a change in society.
02:50Because when Gen Z protest,
02:52I also saw very close to it.
02:55Because I have taken it.
02:56Recently, I have left the media.
02:59But I have the impression that Gen Z has been a role
03:06to all of these families.
03:09And I have seen the family,
03:11and I have the impression that I have been trying to look out for the country.
03:14So I have to go to the village,
03:15The people who are aged, their thoughts were slightly different.
03:19But as I entered into their houses in different houses,
03:24they had a different joy in their hands.
03:27And they said,
03:28what you will say, you will get out of it.
03:31Because we didn't see what they said before.
03:34So this was a different trust in their mind,
03:38that there was also a faithful and friendly wife.
03:41So this was another one.
03:42When we joined,
03:44I was in a meeting meeting in an online meeting.
03:47My ward number 6,
03:48that would be a meeting meeting of Thana Gajir Nagarapalika,
03:50there was a meeting meeting all of the youth,
03:54but the first people, the aged people,
03:57were not connected to them.
03:59There was no miscommunication.
04:01But the youth had a meeting to join in the early meetings.
04:05And the first people,
04:06some people who were fighting,
04:08who were fighting,
04:09who were fighting,
04:10They were not able to meet at this meeting.
04:14Yes.
04:16Nia, tell me, you said that the Gen Z protest after that,
04:19you made your mind that you want to run into politics.
04:22But the Gen Z protest is more than the BJP government.
04:27And you thought about this fight against the BJP ticket?
04:32Absolutely.
04:33It's a different thing.
04:40The youth wing of BJP,
04:42the youth wing of BJP,
04:42the people who protested the Gen Z,
04:45they were involved with the student,
04:47and they were involved with the youth.
04:50They were not against the BJP.
04:53It was against the BJP.
04:54They were against the BJP.
04:58We saw the ABVP protest in Delhi.
05:01They were protesting against the government.
05:31The youth wing of BJP.
06:02The youth wing of BJP.
06:06The youth wing of BJP.
06:14The youth wing of BJP.
06:27The youth wing of BJP.
06:33The youth wing of BJP.
06:39The youth wing of BJP.
06:57The youth wing of BJP.
06:59The youth wing of BJP.
07:02The youth wing of BJP.
07:14The youth wing of BJP.
07:49The youth wing of BJP.
07:53The youth wing of BJP.
08:16The youth wing of BJP.
08:20The youth wing of BJP.
08:21The youth wing of BJP.
08:39The youth wing of BJP.
08:42The youth wing of BJP.
08:42The youth wing of BJP.
09:11The youth wing of BJP.
09:34The youth wing of BJP.
09:37The youth wing of BJP.
09:45The youth wing of BJP.
09:48there all of 21 now will be representing the Alwar you know constituency there the Alwar you know ward
09:57over there as well. Neha, I would like to tell you that there is a lot of responsibility and expectations
10:04so let's see a new crop of Gen Z politicians who are entering, they change the system. So good luck
10:12to you.
10:13Thank you, thank you so much, thank you.
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