The minimum age for contesting elections is 18 years in Australia-Canada and 35 in Chile, demand raised to reduce it to 21 in India.
Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha demanded during the monsoon session of Parliament on Thursday that the minimum age for contesting elections in India should be reduced from the current 25 years to 21 years. Chadha said that this will help in increasing the participation of youth in Indian politics. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha,