‘Family parties say they are the greatest threat to democracy’
Key points
- ‘People have become careful and take into account factors other than the familiar’
- ‘We left-wing parties do not have a dynastic rule, but tell me how many sons and daughters of the BJP leaders are in politics, in Bihar’
- ‘People have the right to choose their leader in a democracy and it is they who make the final decision’
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that “family parties are the greatest threat to democracy” at the BJP victory rally has shaken the big party.
Congressional leader Tariq Anwar attacked the prime minister saying: “The BJP can only see the congressional dynasty, not theirs.”
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Modi, while addressing party workers in a congratulatory function after the BJP’s victory in the Bihar elections and several secondary elections, sharpened his attack on the dynasty’s politics by saying that “the family parties say they are the greatest threat to democracy “and in an indirect reference to Congress he said that even a national party had been a victim of it.
‘People take into account factors other than family-vaad’
Addressing party workers in a congratulatory function after the BJP’s victory in the Bihar elections and several secondary elections, he stated that the only mantra for his party’s victory was “Sabka saath, sabka vikas and sabka vishwas”.
In response to Prime Minister Modi’s comment, CPN leader Majid Memon said: “People have become vigilant and take into consideration factors other than ‘family-vaad’.
Samajwadi Party leader Dr. Anurag Bhadouria said that people have the right to choose their leader in a democracy and that it is they who make the final decision.
CPI leader Atul Anjan said left-wing parties do not have a dynastic government, but asked how many sons and daughters of the BJP leaders are in politics in Bihar.
The prime minister had further said that the results of polls in Bihar and other by-elections across the country had made it clear that people will now support only those who work honestly for development.
“People have decided that development alone will be the basis of national politics in the 21st century,” he said.
Bihar rejected dynasties
Earlier, the head of the BJP, JP Nadda, praised the victory of the ruling NDA in the Bihar assembly polls, saying that the people of the state have chosen ‘vikasraj’ instead of ‘gundaraj’ and rejected the dynasties.
The BJP became the second largest party in Bihar with 74 seats, one seat less than Rashtriya Janata Dal.
In the recently concluded Bihar elections, Luv Sinha, son of actor and politician Shatrughan Sinha, lost the Bankipur seat to Nitin Nabin of BJP by more than 27,000 votes. Luv had disputed the polls on the Congressional ballot.
Repeating the Congressional-RJD line on faulty EVMs, Sinha said her son “Luv Sinha sadly lost or was lost, for obvious reasons.”
