Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Rahul Gandhi on dynasty

Rahul Gandhi was addressing students of the University of California - Berkeley. Times of India reported as under:

"Responding to a question from students, Gandhi said that he was “absolutely ready“ to take up an executive responsibility if the party asked him to do so. Responding to another question whether the Congress party was more associated with dynastic politics, Gandhi argued that India is being run by dynasties.




“Most parties in India have that problem So...Mr Akhilesh Yadav is a dynast. Mr Stalin (son of M Karunanidhi in DMK) is a dynast...Even Abhishek Bachchan is a dynast.So that's how India runs. So don't get after me because that's how they India is run. By the way , last, I recall, Mr Ambanis are running the business.That's also going on in Infosys. So that's what happens in India.“ "

Infosys is run by dynasts? Narayana Murthy and other founders of Infosys must be dumbfounded by this remark of Rahul Gandhi. A dynast gets hereditary powers. Assuming that Infosys is run by its founders (which is contested by the founders), how can Rahul Gandhi refer to them as dynasts? Is he clairvoyant enough to predict that children of Murthy and others will manage the company? Even otherwise, there is a difference between business dynasty and political dynasty. Business dynasts are owners of the business. Is Rahul Gandhi owning the Congress party?

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