<p class="title">Projecting the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as a battle between dynasty and democracy, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley debunked Priyanka Gandhi's entry into the politics.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Referring to her brother and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi's political career and her debut, the finance minister said: "One failed. The other won't take-off".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Without naming either of them, Jaitley, in a blog, talked at length about the internal fight in political dynasties in Haryana, Bihar and Tamil Nadu and noted that the Congress believes that two owners are better than one.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Will Confucius be proved right and history record that one eventually prevailed over the other or will it be otherwise? One failed. The other won’t take-off," the Union Minister said in the blog, in which he asked where power-sharing between successor dynasts takes place. Who is the ultimate emperor, he asked.</p>.<p class="bodytext">To buttress his point, he said state like Haryana, with the Indian National Lok Dal; Bihar, with the RJD; or Tamil Nadu, with the DMK have all witnessed the battle of brothers, while in Uttar Pradesh, with the Samajwadi Party, the fight was between father and son.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said Andhra Pradesh is witnessing a battle of sons-in-law, referring to the TDP, while in Karnataka, there is an experiment of sons sharing the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also alluded to the family fight within NCP, between Sharad Pawar’s nephew Ajit Pawar and daughter Supriya Sule, saying initial ripples are being formed in Maharashtra.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The finance minister said all these parties have ganged up against BJP in the Lok Sabha polls.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Congress, however, was the prime target of the blog, and he slammed former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru for "sowing the seeds" to convert India into a dynastic democracy by propping up his daughter Indira Gandhi as his successor.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This tradition, he said, was imbibed by many regional parties that spring from specific families.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Talking about how power moved in the Nehru-Gandhi clan from Jawaharlal to Indira to Sanjay to Rajiv to Sonia to Rahul, Jaitley said, "generation after generation, the Congress Party’s leadership berth is reserved for a member of the preferred family. When the Party is now in doldrums, another member of the family has entered the scene."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Referring to the stint of former prime minister Narasimha Rao, who had a run-in with Sonia Gandhi, he said, "Congress tried to remove itself from the shackles of a dynasty for a brief period after the unfortunate assassination of Rajiv Gandhi but could not get out of its clutches for long," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Union minister said the impact of this on politics, policy and governance is indeed adverse, as many of these parties are ill-equipped at governance.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jaitley argued that in 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the acceptance of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister was also on account of a "popular desire to get rid of dynasties”, a trend he believes will continue in the 2019 elections as "Prime Minister Modi and aspirational India will together demolish the concept of families."</p>
<p class="title">Projecting the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as a battle between dynasty and democracy, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley debunked Priyanka Gandhi's entry into the politics.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Referring to her brother and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi's political career and her debut, the finance minister said: "One failed. The other won't take-off".</p>.<p class="bodytext">Without naming either of them, Jaitley, in a blog, talked at length about the internal fight in political dynasties in Haryana, Bihar and Tamil Nadu and noted that the Congress believes that two owners are better than one.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Will Confucius be proved right and history record that one eventually prevailed over the other or will it be otherwise? One failed. The other won’t take-off," the Union Minister said in the blog, in which he asked where power-sharing between successor dynasts takes place. Who is the ultimate emperor, he asked.</p>.<p class="bodytext">To buttress his point, he said state like Haryana, with the Indian National Lok Dal; Bihar, with the RJD; or Tamil Nadu, with the DMK have all witnessed the battle of brothers, while in Uttar Pradesh, with the Samajwadi Party, the fight was between father and son.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said Andhra Pradesh is witnessing a battle of sons-in-law, referring to the TDP, while in Karnataka, there is an experiment of sons sharing the state.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also alluded to the family fight within NCP, between Sharad Pawar’s nephew Ajit Pawar and daughter Supriya Sule, saying initial ripples are being formed in Maharashtra.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The finance minister said all these parties have ganged up against BJP in the Lok Sabha polls.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Congress, however, was the prime target of the blog, and he slammed former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru for "sowing the seeds" to convert India into a dynastic democracy by propping up his daughter Indira Gandhi as his successor.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This tradition, he said, was imbibed by many regional parties that spring from specific families.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Talking about how power moved in the Nehru-Gandhi clan from Jawaharlal to Indira to Sanjay to Rajiv to Sonia to Rahul, Jaitley said, "generation after generation, the Congress Party’s leadership berth is reserved for a member of the preferred family. When the Party is now in doldrums, another member of the family has entered the scene."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Referring to the stint of former prime minister Narasimha Rao, who had a run-in with Sonia Gandhi, he said, "Congress tried to remove itself from the shackles of a dynasty for a brief period after the unfortunate assassination of Rajiv Gandhi but could not get out of its clutches for long," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Union minister said the impact of this on politics, policy and governance is indeed adverse, as many of these parties are ill-equipped at governance.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Jaitley argued that in 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the acceptance of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister was also on account of a "popular desire to get rid of dynasties”, a trend he believes will continue in the 2019 elections as "Prime Minister Modi and aspirational India will together demolish the concept of families."</p>