The Princely State Of India:It is going back to monarchy

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tyranny............................

Political dynasties important: Rahul Gandhi​

VARANASI: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, whose father, grandmother and great grandfather were all prime ministers, told Banaras Hindu University (BHU) students on Monday that political dynasties are important in India.

Meanwhile, a large number of students protested against Rahul's visit — organized by the students council formed by the BHU administration after it dissolved the students union — with more than 80 students detained at different places on the campus. They were angry because they do not consider the students association a democratic body.

They were also upset because they were expecting Rahul to make a statement on restoring the union. Despite tight security, groups of students showed black flags to Rahul.

He also left SPG personnel sweating when he suddenly decided to visit the Malviya Bhawan to garland the bust of BHU's founder, Madan Mohan Malviya.

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[ajtr]

read this post of mine--

http://www.defence.pk/forums/1401869-post11.html

i have no dreams of india being superpower.....

but it certainly has achieved something positive in the last ten years , compared to pakistan ,which has only gone down

So Ghazanis and Ghauris 've left deep scars on ur mauled psyche.

Btw it not me when u say i deride india actually its u people who deride india by comparing it with pakistan.That means u r going down the lavel to compare india with it.

 

[GUNS-N- ROSES]

dynasty politics is practised every where in the world. why only point fingers at india/pak/bangladesh/sri lanka. even in the west it is prevalent.

Ms roy conveniently forgets, US of A is the prime example of dynasty politics. remember kenneddys? their sir name is still so strong in US that any persone remotely connected to kenneddys has a bright chance in politics. what about bush senior and junior?

the problem with south asian countries is that development has not been as much as one would have liked.

 

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Is India sliding into a monarchy?​

Is India sliding into a monarchy? In his splendid new book, India: A Portrait, historian Patrick French dredges up some startling data on the stranglehold of family and lineage on Indian politics.

The research finds that though less than a third of India's parliamentarians had a hereditary connection, things get worse with the younger MPs. Consider this:

Every MP in the Lok Sabha or the lower house of the Indian parliament under the age of 30 had inherited a seat.
More than two thirds of the 66 MPs aged 40 or under are hereditary MPs.
Every Congress MP under the age of 35 was a hereditary MP.
Nearly 40% of the 66 ministers who are members of the Lok Sabha were hereditary members.
Nearly 70% of the women MPs have family connections.
Interestingly, for MPs over 50, the proportion with a father or relative in politics was a rather modest 17.9%. But when you looked at those aged 50 or under, this increased by more than two and a half times to nearly half, or 47.2%.

Also most of the younger hereditary MPs - and ministers - have not made a mark and sometimes have been shockingly conservative in their actions. A spiffy, young MP from fedual Haryana, for example, was seen to be cosying up to extra-constitutional village councils in the state which were punishing couples for marrying outside their caste and clan.

"If the trend continued," concludes French, "it was possible that most members of the Indian Parliament would be there by heredity alone, and the nation would be back to where it had started before the freedom struggle, with rule by a hereditary monarch and assorted Indian princelings." He also worries the next Lok Sabha will be a "house of dynasts".

Most agree that growing nepotistic and lineage-based power in the world's largest democracy is a matter of concern. "The idea of India," political scientist Mahesh Rangarajan told me, "is rent apart by these two contradictory impulses."

But nepotism is a part of India life; and politics mirrors society. Power, wealth, land and status have hinged to a large extent on who your parents were, what they owned and where they stood in society. Most Indian businesses continue to be owned and run by families though the new economy is throwing up more first generation entrepreneurs. Bollywood, India's thriving film industry, is dominated by sons and daughters of famous actors and producers. Three members of one family - Nehru-Gandhi - have held the post of prime minister. If the Congress party wins the next elections and PM Manmohan Singh steps down, there is a likelihood of the dynast Rahul Gandhi becoming India's next prime minister. (It is no surprise that 37% of the MPs - 78 of 2008 - in Congress are hereditary compared to only 19% hereditary MPs - 22 of the 116 - in the main opposition BJP.)

Despite French's troubling data, all may not be lost. "Please remember," Dr Rangarajan told me, "the MPs have lineage as a huge plus, but the posts are not hereditary." In other words, if they fail to deliver, they will be voted out of power. Merit triumphed over dynasty in the recent elections in dirt-poor Bihar. So though lineage remains a key factor in politics, remind analysts, it can only give a headstart, and nothing more. Thank democracy for that.

 

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Agree with the above article.... One needs to prove if he wants to survive in politics for a long time.... and younger MP's have more pressure and lot of expectations