Dynasty politics is about protecting ill-gotten wealth

Abstract

Political parties have become family enterprises and India’s future is in the hands of 40 to 50 such families with the capacity for rabble-rousing, rapaciousness and greed. The recent finding by Patrick French (India: A Portrait) is that more than two-thirds of the under-40 members of the Lok Sabha are hereditary and many of them are hyper-hereditary, based on their dynasty. Actually many of us forget that since 1885, members of the Motilal Nehru family have presided over the Congress party for 39 of its 125 years. Motilal Nehru was president for two years, Jawaharlal Nehru for nine, Indira Gandhi for eight, and Rajiv Gandhi for seven. Sonia Gandhi holds the record both within the dynasty and the party by having the longest, unbroken tenure of 13 years and is still going strong. Read more at: https://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/comment-dynasty-politics-is-about-protecting-ill-gotten-wealth-1496695