New Delhi: The belief that a politician is still young at 60 may no longer hold good in India, as voters have elected 226 MPs who are less than 50 years of age for the 15th Lok Sabha.
May be it is the effect of the youth appeal of Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi or the induction of over 10 crore youth as first-time voters, the election saw as much as 40 per cent of the MPs below the age of 50 and the youngest one – Muhammed H Sayeed of Congress became eligible for contest just a year ago and is 26 years old.
The ruling Congress, ridiculed by BJP's star campaigner Narendra Modi as 'budhiya' (old woman), has given 77 MPs who are less than 50 years and in the process defeated the BJP that had projected its 81-year-old leader LK Advani as its prime ministerial candidate.
Emerging as the principal Opposition party, the BJP, which has secured 116 seats to the Lok Sabha, came second in terms of sending in MPs in the age group of 50.
But one just can't write off a politician only on the grounds of age, as the oldest MP to have been elected to the House is 88-year Ramsunder Das of JD(U), who emerged as a big winner by defeating Cabinet Minister and LJP President Ram Vilas Paswan.
Paswan had once held the record for winning with the highest margin of over 4.24 lakh votes.
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