PATNA: In a bid to ease the rift between the NDA allies, ruling JD(U)’s senior leader and state’s education minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary on Tuesday said there is nothing wrong in what BJP national president J P Nadda said at Patna on Sunday about the growing “Parivaarvaad” (familialism) and dynasty politics in the regional parties.
“If Nadda Ji said that the parties based on ‘Parivaarvaad’ will vanish, what is wrong in it? He has not said anything wrong. Our JD(U) also believes that the political parties should not be run only based on the ‘Parivaarvaad’. The JD(U), since its beginning, strongly believes in this thought,” Choudhary said while responding to the media query at the JD(U) office here on Tuesday.
Nadda, while addressing the party leaders after inaugurating and laying foundation stones of various district BJP offices virtually from the State BJP Office in Patna on Sunday said that the BJP’s fight is with those political parties which are promoting ‘Parivarrvaad.’
“The family-centric parties have put obstacles in the path of development and upliftment of the poor – right from Jammu & Kashmir to Tamil Nadu and Bihar-UP-West Bengal to Telangana. … The Congress has now reduced into a “Bhai-Behan” (brother-sister) party while most of the regional parties have turned into family-based, family centric outfits. The DMK, Shiv Sena, RJD, Samajwadi Party, Trinamool Congress, TRS, BJD and Lok Dal – these all are the family-centric parties,” Nadda said, adding, “Today, the biggest challenge before the BJP is to fight against the dynasty politics and Parivaarvaad.”
Nadda had also said that Bihar is the birthplace of democracy. “The growing trend of ‘Parivaarvaad’ is the biggest challenge of democracy and we will have to fight against nepotism to save the democracy in the country,” the BJP chief said while exhorting the party workers.
