Dynastic politics: A look at the leading families of 2019 Lok Sabha polls
While the BJP may lampoon the Congress for dynastic politics, a study by researchers at Harvard University and University of Mannheim shows that the BJP too is not that different.
In these ongoing Lok Sabha elections too, two or more immediate members of a family are in the electoral fray in a number of instances.
Despite what they say during election campaigning, few political parties keep out family members or relatives of top leaders while giving out tickets. Rather, the motive appears to about keeping power within the family.
While the BJP may lampoon the Congress for dynastic politics, a study by researchers at Harvard University and University of Mannheim shows that the BJP too is not that different. If the Congress had 36 dynastic MPs in the Lok Sabha since 1999, the BJP had 31, says the study.
In these ongoing Lok Sabha elections too, two or more immediate members of a family are in the electoral fray in a number of instances. In Karnataka, it is former PM HD Deve Gowda and his two grandsons, while in Bihar, two brothers and the son of union minister Ram Vilas Paswan are contesting. But not all such contests are about family unity — in Araku, TDP’s V Kishore Chandra Deo faced electoral challenge from his own daughter.
