Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday picked the topic of the country’s youth to start his monthly radio programme, Mann Ki Baat, and talked about the role they are going to play in the next decade.

The Prime Minister’s address on youth comes at a time when students of colleges and universities across the country have been protesting against the newly-amended citizenship law.

“In the coming decade, the young in India will play a keyrole. Today’s youth believes in the system and also has an opinion on a wide range of issues. I consider this to be a great thing…” the Prime Minister said while addressing the 60th edition of his radio programme.

“The youth in India likes to follow the system… They question the system when it does not work and don’t like anarchy as they question the loopholes in the system… What today’s youth dislikes is instability, chaos, nepotism,” he said.

The Prime Minister also quoted Swami Vivekananda. “My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions,” Modi said as he quoted the 19th-century monk.

The Prime Minister had talked about the patience, restraint and maturity shown by people after the Supreme Court delivered its verdict in the Ayodhya case in his last Mann Ki Baat programme on November 24.

He had also assured students that he will counsel them aboutexaminations in January through a session. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hadalso urged students, parents and teachers to participate in the ‘Fit IndiaWeek’ programme, an initiative taken up by the Central Board of SecondaryEducation (CBSE).

Mann Ki Baat is broadcast on the last Sunday of the month.