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It has more to do with apportionment of tickets for the entire family their immediate clan , it has nothing to do with the community per se its self aggrendizing behaviour at its worst display. The greatest curse of Indian political system is the 'Dynast culture' of family owned parties where son has the divine Right to mount the throne after the King abdicates itand continue to milk the system a Pvt Ltd company a personal duchy. The ordinary karyakarta spends the entire life laying down chairs for meeting and serving tea a unique phenomenon in the world! Is this democracy ?I doubt it. Though for small mercies BJP and Communists are the only two exceptions where son of Jyoti Basu or Budhdeb Bhattacharya or Somnath Chatterjee doesn't automatically become the secretary also Vajpayee's son or Advani's daughter or Arun Jaitley's daughter doesn't become the president of the partyon debut. Yes a politician's son entering politics is OK but definitely not wearing the crown on his debut without proving his mettle. Your article should be read in tandem with this ugly fact which percolates down the system , in simple English 'What is in there for me and my clan' rest of my community Dalit OBC Kurmi Mallahs others can go climb a tree it doesn't matter as I can fool them and gain their sympathy on false pretext of working for their welfare and good.. This is the reality of man exploiting man forget empowerment.

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