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Nehru-Gandhi dynasty an 'albatross' around the Congress's neck, says finance minister and BJP leader Arun Jaitley
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New Delhi: Taking a dig at the Congress, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said the party will shrink in absence of leaders with the stature of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.
“Where you have dynasties, dynasties become albatross around your neck. Without the dynasty, you are irrelevant. With the dynasty, you stagnate. That is the problem of the Congress," he said at an event organized by the News 24 TV channel in New Delhi.
Jaitley pressed his point further, saying the Congress is shrinking because of the weak leadership offered by the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. Fielding a poser that there are examples of father-son duo in his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) too, he said, “Two persons from the same family enter politics... One big national party is being owned by one family. It’s like proprietorship business and the authority to become prime minister belongs to that family only. This is the fundamental difference."
Stating that the rule of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has weakened the party, Jaitley said that the Congress does not have a clear leadership at the state level. “After the recent election results, I asked a very senior leader of the Congress in a TV debate to name few leaders of some of the states. He started fumbling after two-three names," Jaitley said.
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