New Delhi, Mar 15 (UNI) The "seeds" of dynastic politics was sown by the country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, senior BJP leader and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday and maintained he had ignored the claims of many other senior leaders when Indira Gandhi was pushed as his successor.
"The seeds to convert India into a dynastic democracy were sown by Pt. Nehru who ignored a galaxy of tall national leaders of the Congress Party & started grooming his daughter Smt. Indira Gandhi as his successor. He made her the Congress President ahead of many other seniors," he said in a series of a tweets, adding, " I am sure, PM Modi & aspirational India will prevent the country from becoming a dynastic democracy."
In a blog, Mr Jaitley said subsequently during her tenure, Indira Gandhi started grooming her sons to enter into the politics. She first encouraged her younger son Sanjay Gandhi and then Rajiv Gandhi to be her successors.