UPSC Key: Gen Z, The Odyssey and UN Secretary-General

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• The current Lok Sabha, elected in 2024, offered the first opportunity for Gen Z representatives to enter the Lower House. The Congress has the most Gen Z MPs at three, followed by the SP at two and the LJP(RV) at one. • These numbers matter because, by the 2029 Lok Sabha elections, Gen Z could account for the largest share of India’s voting-age population. The Gen Z population aged 25 and older alone accounts for an estimated 8.9% of the country’s population. • Generation Z (or Gen Z) includes people born from 1997 to 2012.