Dynasty a trait of Congress not country: Amit Shah

TIL Desk/National/Dehradun/ Taking on Rahul Gandhi for his Berkley remark on dynasticism in India, BJP chief Amit Shah on Tuesday said it is a trait peculiar to the Congress and not the country. Shah described the BJP as the only party in the country in which internal democracy prevails.

“Dynasticism is a trait of the Congress. Don’t impose it on the country Rahul ji”, Shah said, addressing a conference of intellectuals in Dehradun.

He said his own rise to the BJP’s top post, despite a non-political family background, is a testimony to the fact that the party gives importance to an individual’s abilities and not his lineage.

 “I began by putting up party posters and banners and now I head the world’s largest political party. It could have been possible only in a party like BJP which believes in internal democracy,” Shah said.

He said no one in the country has any doubt on who would succeed Sonia Gandhi as Congress president but asked if anyone knew who the next BJP president would be.