Tejasvi Surya contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Bangalore South on a BJP ticket and won when he was just 28. In 2020, he took over as the national president of the party’s youth wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). He leads the Morcha at a time when the party is trying hard to make inroads in the south while making efforts to retain the states where it is in power. In an interview with Kumar Shakti Shekhar, he spells out the task cut out for him and the BJYM besides the contributions which the BJP-led NDA government have made for the youth of the country. Excerpts:
What have been Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s contributions for the youth of India?