Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 22: While turning tables on leaders of Congress and National Conference (NC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said it is astonishing that leaders with five decades of political standing are trying to befool the people with ill-conceived logics.
Commenting on the statement of NC patriarch and former Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah, BJP State spokesperson, Brig (retd) Anil Gupta said that during a press conference along with senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, Dr Abdullah retorted when a reporter put a question about the dynastic rule to him saying when the son of a doctor can become the doctor why can’t a politician’s son become a politician. His argument was supported by Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Brig Gupta said it is common knowledge that if a person rises in his chosen profession based on merit, qualification and by dint of hard work, he is accepted as a successful individual without needing the family tag to promote him.
“But when a father compromises everything to ensure that his seat is safe and does not bother about the fate of other candidates since they do not belong to the dynasty, it is called ‘dynastic rule”, he said. Similarly, when the father unilaterally declares his son as the Chief Ministerial candidate without caring for democratic norms or aspirations of other leaders of the party since they do not belong to dynasty, it is called ‘dynastic rule.’ When all decisions are taken by father-son duo, ‘dynastic rule’ is obvious”, added Brig Gupta.
He said for the information of Ghulam Nabi Azad, ‘dynastic rule’ is when a professional, serving commercial pilot with zero experience of politics is catapulted to the chair of nation’s Prime Minister after the death of the mother. And on death of her son, her Italian daughter-in-law is handed over the reins of the party, who later nominates her son as the successor when she desires to retire and when the son feels insecure, he inducts his sister by giving her the highest organisational post. This too is called the dynastic rule and politics. “Coming closer home, the Congress nominee for the Udhampur Parliamentary seat is a beneficiary of dynastic politics,” stated Brig Gupta.
Reacting strongly to the satirical comment of Azad wherein he said that Prime Minister, Modi does not have “parivar”, Brig Gupta said that entire India and all Indians are the members of Prime Minister’s “Parivar”. Stung by the ever growing popularity of Modi, Azad and other Congress leaders are resorting to personal attacks on him and the people of India are not going to forgive them for that, claimed Brig Gupta.
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