India poll results rejection of dynasty politics: BJP

- by Shweta Aggarwal | Shweta Aggarwal

bjp-ravoSenior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad, who is poised to get a plum portfolio in the next government, has described the landslide victory for his party as a rejection of politics of dynasty and a vote for the politics of hope and accomplishment.

“It’s a tectonic shift in India’s politics. This is the first time since 1984 when a single party has got a majority of its own,” Mr Prasad, BJP’s chief spokesperson and a former Union minister, said soon after the trends showed that the BJP was leading in over 275 seats in the 545-member parliament in India.

“It’s a rejection of the politics of dynasty, entitlement and inheritance. It’s a victory of the politics of accomplishment, based on hard work and hope,” said Mr Prasad when asked about his party’s response to the landslide victory of the BJP in the 16th parliamentary elections in India and the equally spectacular humiliation of the Congress party, led by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

sonia-rahulNarendra Modi, the 63-year-old BJP leader who is set to be sworn in as India’s prime minister next week, relentlessly attacked the politics of dynasty in his campaign speeches, and ridiculed the government run by ma-beta – the mother-son duo of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. In 67 years of India’s independence, the Nehru-Gandhi family, starting from India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, followed by Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, has ruled the country directly for over three decades. The UPA government, which ruled India for the last 10 years with Manmohan Singh as the prime minister, was widely seen to be driven from behind by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

 

 

 

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