After Modi takes KCR, Kavitha corruption national, Nadda takes aim at family rule

Hyderabad: Bharatiya Janata Party president J.P. Nadda on Thursday said Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao’s family was seeking to extend its influence on Telangana politics by having more members of his family in politics.

Addressing a public meeting in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur, Nadda said, “In Telangana state K. Chandrasekhar Rao, baap (father), is the Chief Minister. His beta (son) is a minister, bahu (daughter in law) wants to be an MP, and pota (grandson) is getting ready to contest elections.” Though the BJP leaders have in the past attacked the BRS party leadership over ‘family rule’, this was the first time a top leader from the ruling party at the Centre, mentioned two close members – daughter in law, and grandson – as being interested parties in state politics.

He also said that in Andhra Pradesh too family politics rule the roost with YSRCP taking a lead role on this front.

Declaring that the BJP’s fight across the country in several states was with family run parties, Nadda spent a little more time talking about family rule in Telangana than in other states including Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, and a few other states. “It is only the BJP that is free of family run politics and it is only in BJP that a common party worker can go on to become the national president, and a chaiwala can go on to become the Prime Minister. In most states, it is family politics that rule the roost,” he said.