UNBELIEVABLE: Congress openly glorifies dynasty after PM Modi's stinging attack, claims those who don't come from dynasty can't opine on it

The Congress has officially come out with a defence of dynastic politics in light of the Prime Minister's stinging Wednesday blog post wherein he took on the grand old party over its multi-generational sidelining of key institutions and tenets that form the core of India's democracy.

Congress leader Tariq Anwar gave a quite bizarre defence of dynasty - extolled it, in fact - putting forth that the Prime Minister was attacking dynastic politics as "he does not come from a dynasty. How can one who does not come from a dynasty say this?"

He went on to challenge: "Tell me one profession where dynasty is not encouraged"

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Tariq Anwar's remarks hardly represent an outlier or aberration from the Congress top leadership's thinking. At an interaction at Berkeley in the US in 2018, Congress president Rahul Gandhi had said:

"Mr Akhilesh Yadav is a dynast, Mr Stalin is a dynast, Mr Dhumal's son is a dynast. Even Abhishek Bachchan is a dynast - that's how India runs.Don't get after me because that's how the entire country's running."

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Tariq Anwar's response comes after the Prime Minister had written a blog post where he comprehensively elaborated on the following premise:

"In the summer of 2014, the people voted decisively for:

Honesty over dynasty.

Development over decay.

Security over stagnation.

Opportunities over obstacles.

Vikas over vote-bank politics.

Indians were tired of our beloved nation being in the Fragile Five, where corruption, cronyism and nepotism made headlines instead of anything positive.

India voted to shed the baggage of the past in pursuit of a better future.

The mandate of 2014 was epoch-making also because it was for the first time in the history of India that a non-dynastic party was blessed with a complete majority.

When a Government works with the spirit of ‘India First’ instead of ‘Family First’, it shows in its working."

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