As a part of the Nationwide innovation of Digital Baal Mela 'Bacchon Ki Sarkar Kaisi Ho' on Thursday, May 18, children learned the mantras necessary to succeed in politics. This was the occasion of the children's dialogue session, in which Congress President of Himachal Pradesh and Member of Lok Sabha MP Smt. Pratibha Singh partook as the chief guest. In this session, she interacted with the child MLA contenders of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly "Baal Satra" on the role of royal families in democracy.
• At the beginning of the session, Lok Sabha MP from Mandi, Smt. Pratibha Singh told the stories of her political journey to the child candidates and told how she became MP 3 times with the public's support.
Along with this, she also shared the beginning of the political journey of India's legendary leader late Virbhadra Singh with the children. In this session held through Google Meet, the Queen of Shimla's royal family, Smt. Pratibha Singh while appreciating the Digital Baal Mela said that in today's time where children are misusing time on mobile, in such a situation Digital Baal Mela platform Children are getting to learn a lot of new things and their time is being put to good use. Along with this, she also congratulated the team of Digital Baal Mela for organizing such an event. In this session, the children asked their questions.
The children asked:-
Question- What is the role of royal families in a democratic country
Answer- Answering this question, Lok Sabha MP Pratibha Singh said that in a democracy, the king and the people are equal and some people from the royal family have turned to politics to serve the public. Otherwise, a large population belonging to the royal families is leading their lives like ordinary citizens.
Question- Janhvi Sharma, the founder of Digital Baal Mela, asked in the question that despite the Himachal Pradesh Congress State President being a woman, there is only one woman MLA in the Himachal Legislative Assembly, what are your views on this?
Answer- Answering this, Himachal Pradesh Congress President Pratibha Singh told that in the past many women MLAs have been members of the Himachal Legislative Assembly. This time the party had to put forward men in view of the electoral combination, but the children should not understand that it means that there is no participation of women in the politics of Himachal Pradesh. I myself am the state president of Himachal Pradesh and I try my best to empower the voice of women.
In this session, Class IV student Aarchi, a resident of Dungarpur, impressed the chief guest with her questions and became the leader of the session. It is noteworthy that children from different schools of Himachal Pradesh participated in this dialogue session held at noon. Child MLA candidates from Cambridge International School, Palampur, Rising Star Convent School, Government Primary School, Kinnu, Government Girls School Dharamshala, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Hamirpur, Government School Rampur, Gagal, Hamirpur and other states were present in these schools. In this dialogue more than 2000 children interected with congress president
Janhvi Sharma, the founder of Digital Baal Mela, told that the campaign is being organized under the aegis of Himachal Pradesh Education Department. Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Children's Session will be organized on June 12 under this campaign started to increase the political awareness of children. In this historic children's session, 68 child MLAs from all over the country will be seen in the roles of Chief Minister, Speaker, Leader of Opposition and MLA. The special thing of this session will be that in this the children will raise serious issues related to them in front of the government and the society.
Himachal Pradesh Assembly Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania and Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu will be the chief guests of this session. Let us inform that thousands of children of Himachal Pradesh are joining these sessions daily. The next session in the series of these sessions will be of Himachal Pradesh Chief Parliamentary Secretary and MLA Sunder Singh Thakur. 8-17 years old child candidates, can register for the campaign till May 25.