Political awakening does not merely mean holding views on leaders and parties that we discuss casually in the drawing room. Our paramount and result-oriented national duty is to get registered in the electoral rolls and go out to vote on polling day. It is also a call of duty, in particular, for urban and educated individuals who hold a degree from any university in the country.

A college degree and politics? You may ask, what connection do these two have? In Maharashtra, university graduates have the constitutional right to elect seven MLCs out of the 78-member Upper House. Mumbai and rest of the Konkan segments will have the graduates' constituency elections on June 25 this year. Now I ask: how many of you knew of the existence of such a constituency and election?