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How BJP differs from dynastic parties
October 28, 2025 11:36 am
The BJP’s record shows that family background can be a biographical fact, but it is not a sufficient credential. The pathway to leadership remains the same for everyone, karyakarta to leader, worker to representative, representative to minister, each step earned through performance
Scale of dynastic politics, across political parties, is a warning and a symptom
October 24, 2025 7:35 am
Over half of India's population is under 30. How many of them can look up to a leadership that can empathise with their struggles and aspirations? For political parties, this is an important question to ask themselves and work on reforms for their own long-term future.
Dynastic politics, sons and nephews – why reinvention may be more important than family ties
July 18, 2024 8:32 pm
Leaders like Bal Thackeray, Mayawati, Mamata Banerjee, Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad represented a new wave of politics that often required aggressive, ruthless and/or cynical politicking, but should their successors — who enter the political arena with privilege — continue in the same vein?
Political parties cannot be a family business
February 26, 2024 11:29 am
Discrimination perpetrated by family-controlled politics is alien to the spirit of our Constitution. It is time to reform structure and functioning of these institutions
Shah: Modi govt ensured politics of performance
February 21, 2024 4:40 am
Addressing BJP workers in Udaipur, he called the Congress a dynastic and directionless party.
Will Mayawati’s ‘dynastic’ BSP sink or swim?
December 13, 2023 9:58 am
With a young and techno-savvy leader in charge, the BSP might respond better to the politics of these changing times. But with this, the possibility of the enthusiasm of the cadre diminishing further cannot be ruled out
After Cong, BJD fills list with relatives
March 26, 2014 2:35 am
The party also gave tickets to more than 70 new faces that included relatives of party leaders.
Gogoi, Raman sons latest in Congress, BJP dynasty lists
March 17, 2014 1:28 am
Poonam Mahajan, daughter of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, will contest Mumbai North-Central against Priya Dutt.
Arun Jaitley targets Cong over dynastic politics
June 01, 2013 3:33 pm
Jaitley was addressing a meeting of party's booth-level coordinators here.
Lalu attacks BJP for raising dynastic politics issue
May 21, 2012 6:26 pm
RJD chief says atmosphere of 'hatred' is created against Gandhi family in name of dynastic politics.
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