“ ” or dynasty politics is no longer a dirty word for the Bharatiya Janata Party. After running a systematic campaign against the Congress for promoting a host of dynast leaders, the BJP is now doing the same. It was only too happy to induct “Congress dynasts” like Jitin Prasad, R.
P.N. Singh, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Milind Deora to the saffron fold.
The list of candidates in the recent Haryana Assembly elections and the upcoming polls for Maharashtra and Jharkhand further bears out the fact that the BJP has done away with its proclaimed policy of discouraging “ ”. The family members who were accommodated by the BJP in Haryana included Gurugram MP Rao Inderjit Singh’s daughter Arti Singh Rao, who was promptly appointed health minister following her maiden victory. It’s the same story with the daughter of former Congress leader Kiran Chaudhary, Shruti, now a first-time minister in Haryana.
Her mother was accommodated in the Rajya Sabha earlier. Former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan’s daughter Shrijaya figures in the long list of children, brothers and spouses of leaders who are being fielded by the BJP in the coming elections. And in Jharkhand, the BJP list includes Meera and Geeta Munda, wives of former chief minister and Purnima Das Sahu, daughter-in-law of a former chief minister.
When Priyanka Gandhi Vadra filed her nomination papers for the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat last week, the grand show put up by the Congress was not unexpected. While the part.