National Youth Day  

National Youth Parliament Festival is organized as part of celebrations on the National Youth Day which is observed to commemorate Swami Vivekananda on his birth anniversary

On the occasion of National Youth Day (January 12) BJP Rajya MP Subramanian Swamy stressed the need for the youth to imbibe traits such as courage and fearlessness from the monk and also the need to formalise his thoughts into our education system. 

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted Swami Vivekananda’s message of tolerance and universal acceptance on National Youth Day. But his preaching only to Hindus was exposed as he was heckled in Jamia Millia when he went there to address protesters over the CAA issue. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a stern tone, while addressing people at Belur Math, said that the Opposition parties are playing 'political games' over the Centre's Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)