When any untoward incident occurs in any part of India we can see online communities like Orkut and Facebook reacting to it quite actively. Most young Indian Internet users want an outlet for their emotions and when they don’t find any better forum to express their feelings they end up making online groups with the intention to make wrongs right. Corruption, terrorism and racism are among the most disturbing rudiments India has been fighting for a long time.

Since social networking and blogs have become suitable platforms to express one’s feelings and share thoughts with others, we are witnessing thousands of groups and blogs related to India’s socio-political scenarios being created in Orkut and Facebook social networks. Most of such groups, however, have not been able to expand their work because of certain limitations, such as distance, lack of support and ground work. But Suyash Deep Rai and his friends have been exceptionally successful in their mission.

Youth Democratic Front (YDF) is a social group which was first formed in Orkut by Suyash Deep Rai, a B-Tech Graduate from Gorakhpur (UP), Venkat Kondaveeti, Saurabh Sharma and Ashutosh Kumar. It all started with Suyash being actively involved in different Orkut communities related to India and the problems its people were facing socially and economically. He was not benefiting much by community forums and wanted something which could provide him with real results. Then he, with a few friends, formed a group and named it Youth Democratic Front. Though the members were located in different Indian cities but it never became a disadvantage for them but, instead helped to spread their mission far and wide. And social networking played a major role to make young Indians from all over the world to become aware and unite.

Youth Democratic Front is based on four main motives:

1. United India
2. Justice for Common Man
3. Fight against Corruption
4. Rural Empowerment

This online group is soon to become an organization; it already has its website/ blog, Facebook fan pages and has started assigning tasks to different group members in different areas. All over more than 1000 youth from different cities have joined YDF online or offline. They are actively involved in the ground work to spread public awareness, carry out peaceful protests, meetings and promote their revolutionary mission.

Till now YDF has been involved in protesting against regionalism and organized a Unity Walk in Lucknow to protest division of the state on the basis of caste and language. They also carried out signature campaigns in New Delhi and Bangalore to protest Ruchika murder case and sent petitions to CJI and the Bar Counsel of India to re-open such cases. The campaign received more than 3000 signatures. YDF is also active in a campaign to end corruption and for that it is using RTI (Right To Information) as its main tool, Suyash has filed many RTIs against the ministry of health to display the pathetic conditions of various government-run cancer hospitals which don’t even have a single radiotherapy machine working and this step was supported by many doctors too.

YDF is also focusing on another issue which is Rural Empowerment and has started a project from Rajasthan. Suyash has informed in an email conversation that “On the 6th and 7th March I with my team am going to many villages in Suratgarh district of Rajasthan which are untouched from any development since a long long time. The villagers contacted us through one of  my local friend over there and raised the issue. So we are moving there”.

YDF was started as an online group by a few young enthusiasts and has now become a strong group comprising thousands of youth who have joined hands to make a better India and the world a better place to live in.

To learn more about this group, check its website or join them on their

YDF Website

YDF Facebook Page

YDF Orkut Community

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