Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Rahul Gandhi says dynasty politics must end

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080069471&ch=10/20/2008%206:27:00%20PM

"Acknowledging that he was in politics because of his lineage to the Gandhi-Nehru family, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday said he wanted to change the system of politician's family members getting easy entrance into politics."I would not have been here, if I was not from a political family. If you do not have money, a family or friends, you cannot enter politics," Rahul told a group of girls here."

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A rare case of honesty from the Nehru family and congress. One muct congratulate Rahul Gandhi for this. Is this confession because of his inexperience and will we see a "misquoted by press" statement soon? In any case, Rahul still likes it and will continue using it, just that he will prevent others from doing so in the future.

"But I want to change this," he said during the nearly hour-long interaction on the first day of his three-day visit to Uttarakhand."

Can we start with you first?

1 comment:

Sunil Kosuru said...

You never know, was it attention seeking, but based on his track record, he gets benifit of doubt :)