BJP president Amit Shah and Congress president Sonia Gandi BJP president Amit Shah and Congress president Sonia GandiBJP president Amit Shah likes to make the point that the BJP is the only political party with internal democracy. Though a precise and pedantic Narasimha Rao once quibbled that the Nehru-Gandhi domination cannot be dubbed as dynastic rule since you have “an agnate then a cognate and then an agnate’’. Sophistry aside, when it’s all in the family, it counts as dynastic rule, even if Congresspersons keep protesting that the family is democratically elected by the party and the people. Today Congresspersons may grumble privately that Rahul Gandhi does not have it in him to be party president, but, ironically, the only alternative solution they dare to voice is Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Shah is correct when he asserts that it is not known who the next BJP party president will be.

Source: Indian Express July 08, 2017 20:51 UTC