The importance of the surname in Indian politics
More than 150 Lok Sabha members have a family background in politics, and over 250 other members have ‘no significant family background’ in politics
Over 150 members of Lok Sabha have followed their family members into politics, according to data put up on The India Site, a website associated with British historian Patrick French’s book India: A Portrait.
The site doesn’t say how these MPs got into politics.
Table 2 has the party-wise break-up of these parliamentarians.
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