Austria’s new head of Government (Chancellor) Sabastian Kurz is just 31!

Foreign Minister at 27, now the new Chancellor elected yesterday, is proof that youth can turn the tables on old style politics and bring about change. After all most people who voted for him were older than him, and trusted in his ability to run his country.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4982100/Austria-set-run-right-wing-Sebastian-Kurz.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41627586

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/15/sebastian-kurz-could-31-year-olds-audacious-bid-to-lead-austria-pay-off

Even the Guardian link above,  alludes to the reluctant respect of his audacious gamble that paid off. We need a person in Sri Lanka who is willing to take an audacious gamble. Any takers?

So how about it Sri Lanka? Wouldn’t it be a REAL breadth of fresh air to have a PM in Sri Lanka who is under 30? After all William Pitt the younger was the Prime Minister of Great Britain at age 24 in 1783 and served for nearly 19 years as PM.

Unfortunately in Sri Lanka – Those who are even 45 are considered young by our establishment. So old geysers are sent to The World Festival of Youth and Students held in Sochi, Russia, between 14^th October and 22^nd October as a testament to that point, that we have NO ONE under 21 in this delegation. After all students should at least be under 21, considering I graduated from University when I had just become 21.

It begs a few questions! Is the time ripe to introduce new ideas of statesmanship in Sri Lanka that has failed with experienced Politicians? YES

Should be look for a potential leader from Under 30s? YES

Is there an obvious candidate for that slot at present? NO

Can we find someone who can take up this mantle within 5 years? YES

Then what are we waiting for? We can now look for a talent pool of 10,000 young people between the ages 16 and 25, and train them in what it takes to create a youth leader who could lead us in 2025, needing the popularity, charisma, intelligence, utter confidence of his or her incorruptibility, and one who is a visionary who puts Country first, in preference to Race, Caste, Religion and Self.

Sri Lankans are extremely talented people, whose talents are usually only exposed, harnessed, encouraged, and developed by the Private Education Establishment. These brilliant youth, do not currently see opportunities available to them in Sri Lanka and so leave to make their fortune or their mark in foreign countries because the establishment is archaic, promoting mediocrity instead of meritocracy. We can reverse that trend by ensuring that the elite National schools develop well rounded youth with an overall interest in obtaining the skills to be pragmatic and practical and a vision for a goal to achieve, so they can then be armed with the needful to achieve that goal for the Country. This is NOT pie in the sky. All we have to do is be the enablers to permit them to achieve those ambitions and goals without delay.