Future Congress President May Be From Outside Gandhi Parivar: Sonia Gandhi

"Why not? In future there may well be," the former Congress President said when asked if the 132-year-old party would ever be headed by a leader from outside the Gandhi dynasty, news agency IANS.

Gandhi said electing leaders in the Congress party has always been a democratic process, adding that바카라 웹사이트she chose Manmohan Singh as the prime minister in 2004 as she was aware of her limitations and knew that he was a better candidate.바카라 웹사이트

Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi was recently made the 49th president of the party, 7th from the Gandhi family, amid allegations that the party was playing dynastic politics.바카라 웹사이트

BJP President Amit Shah, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the Congress for Gandhi's elevation to the post.바카라 웹사이트

Party chief Rahul Gandhi, then a nominee for the president post, in a lecture at바카라 웹사이트University of California at Berkeley, defended dynasty politics in India, saying the바카라 웹사이트entire nation is running on it and hence, one should not go only after the Congress party.바카라 웹사이트

"Most of the country runs like this. Akhilesh Yadav is a dynast. Stalin is a dynast. Dhumal's son a dynast. Even Abhishek Bachchan is a dynast. Also Mr. Ambani. That's how India runs. Don't go after me," he said. Rahul even said that there are many people in the party, who are not a part of the dynasty politics.

"The real question is if a person is capable. Is the person sensitive?" he had said.바카라 웹사이트

The BJP slammed Gandhi for his remarks, saying dynasty politics is a trait only of the Congress party. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said,바카라 웹사이트“One family either directly or indirectly ruled the country for 48 years... for about 17 years our first바카라 웹사이트Prime Minister바카라 웹사이트ruled, and after that his daughter held the reigns for 14 years and following that her son was at the helm for five years,”바카라 웹사이트