LIVE! Modi's new rule? Children of BJP leaders won't get Cabinet berths

May 26, 2014 14:36

Narendra Modi enforces a new rule that no children of BJP leaders will get cabinet berths. Which is why Poonam Mahajan (the late Pramod Mahajan's daughter), Dushyant Singh (Vasundhara Raje's son), Jayant Sinha (Yashwant Sinha) don't get to be ministers.

Other dynasties in the BJP are: Abhishek Singh -- son of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh. He contested his first parliamentary election from Rajnandgaon and is the youngest parliamentarian in the state. The there is Parvesh Verma, son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma and Chirag Paswan, son of the Lok Janshakti Party Ram Vilas Paswan.

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