Cong. indulging in family fiefdom since Independence: Amit Shah

TIL Desk/National/Ranchi/ BJP president Amit Shah on Friday accused the Congress of “indulging in family fiefdom since Independence” and said there was no place for merit in that party. He claimed that only the Left parties and the BJP had “internal democracy”, while there was no such concept in any other party.

Referring to Jharkhand, Shah asked the gathering, “Who will run the party after Guruji (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha president Shibu Soren)? Does anyone have any confusion about it,” apparently hinting at JMM working president and Shibu’s son, Hemant Soren.

Similarly, he asked the gathering if they had any confusion about who would become the Congress president after Sonia Gandhi. Shah said in the BJP, intra-party polls were held every three years and anyone could become its president as the person was not elected on the basis of which family he belonged to.

He said the top post in the saffron party was all about commitment and merit and on the basis of that, he, who was a booth-level president of the party years ago, had become its national president. Shah said the BJP was not in politics to grab power and described it as the “most democratic party” in the country.