"I am a third generation Congress leader and I am proud of it. The BJP is not that old. How could they have third or fourth generation leaders," Ahmed asked while speaking to IANS.
Analyst Pradip Kumar Datta said that children of BJP leaders getting tickets indicated "Congressisation" of the party.
"I don't know if dynastic politics is native to the Indian way of thinking... the 'Parivar' (Sangh Parivar) was supposed to be about ideological parivar (family), not one based on kinship," said Datta, professor and former head of Delhi University's department of political science.
"Perhaps it is the 'Congressisation' of the BJP. On one hand we have the family lineages and on the other we have 'Modi-fication'... everything is focussed around Modi, not the BJP," he added.
BJP's 'shehzadas' list runs long
New Delhi: Even as it attacks the Congress for its "dynastic politics", the BJP appears to be charting a similar course going by the number of sons and daughters of its leaders in the fray
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