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In the last two episodes, we talked about why the youth vote is important and what really drives young voters to vote - like unemployment, national security, infrastructure, better education and even caste.But for all these concerns, not enough young voters are actually voting. For several years the number of young voters turning up to vote has been 5% less than the average turnout.So what is the reason for this? Why aren't more young people voting? Are they fed up with the system? Are they politically apathetic? In this episode we speak to SY Quraishi (ex-chief election commissioner), political analysts like Manisha Priyam and Suhas Palshikar (co-director of the Lokniti programme) and popular Youtube personality Dhruv Rathee, to find the answers to these questions.