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Delhi, Sept 12: The ruling BJP today hit back at Congress vice-president
Rahul Gandhi for his comments at University of California that dynastic
succession was common to most parties in India, saying that Indian democracy
ran on merit and at present, all the three top posts of the country were held
by people coming from humble background. The party today fielded Minister for
Information and Broadcasting Smriti Irani, who had contested against Mr Gandhi
from Amethi in the last Lok Sabha elections, to take on the Congress leader for
his comments on the country’s polity and its leaders. Addressing a press
conference here, Ms Irani called Mr Gandhi a 'failed dynast', and said it was
an admission of his own failure as a leader that he was complaining on foreign
soil that he was being projected as 'reluctant' on the social media by the BJP
followers. She said it was unfortunate that he was trying to belittle the Prime
Minister on foreign land. The Minister, who said she was addressing the media
not as a government representative but as party person, however, expressed her
'gratitude' to Mr Gandhi for accepting that 'under Congress president Sonia
Gandhi, the Congress had become arrogant.' Mr Gandhi in address to the
university students at Berkley said that dynastic succession was a 'problem in
all political parties. Most of the country runs like this, so don’t go after
me.' Responding to this, Ms Irani pointed out that Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu, all were
from poor background, and so was party chief Amit Shah, so it was would be
distortion to say all parties were plagued by the problem of dynastic
succession. UNI
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