TIL Desk/National/Bhubaneswar/ BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday said internal democracy exists only in the BJP and Communist parties and not in Congress or others including BJD headed by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik as they follow dynastic politics.
“There have been about 1650 political parties in the country since Independence. But, only the BJP and Communist parties have internal democracy which is not found anywhere else including the Congress and BJD,” Shah said addressing a meeting with intellectuals here.
Maintaining that dynastic politics dominated most parties including the Congress, the BJP president asked the gathering as to who will be the president of the oldest party of India after Sonia Gandhi and said the answer was obvious.
“I and all of you know who will take over the Congress after Sonia Gandhi. We also know that BJD is such a party where one has to belong to Biju Parivar to take over the reins of the party in Odisha,” Shah, who began his 3-day Odisha visit to galvanise the BJP workers in the state, said.
