Paradigm shift required of Youth wing

THE availability and development of social media has redefined the relationship between leaders and the people, and between political parties and the electorate.

Umno Youth has traditionally been seen as a pressure group, the “firebrand” of the party representing the aspirations of the younger generation in nation-building. One assumption is that there is a generation gap between the youth and veterans of the party in terms of idealism or radicalism.