Editorial with Sujit Nair | BJP’s Dynastic Politics | PM Modi | Maharashtra Election 2024

[00:00:00] Namaskar! Welcome to another episode of editorial. Bharatiya Janata Party and Mr. Narendra Modi, our good Prime Minister, has been constantly saying that these Congress fellows, no Congress fellows, they are all dynast, all dynast. Gandhi, Parivar, that way, all dynast.

[00:00:25] We know, we in Bharatiya Janata Party, we give tickets with our merit, we get tickets with our merit or we give ticket away on merit. We don't give ticket dynast, dynast, dynast. We don't do that.

[00:00:40] This is what happened in 2014. This is what he used to say in 2014. He continued to say that till 2024. But what really happened is, now Bharatiya Janata Party seems to be a bigger dynast party than Congress themselves.

[00:00:59] Let us try and look into some names and figures and let's talk about it. Let's get right in the show.

[00:01:13] You know, before I start my editorial, I want you to, I want to give you the meaning of this word called Hippocrate. Hippocrate. It is a very interesting word. Hippocrate, the meaning of Hippocrate is,

[00:01:29] is the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble belief than is the case. This is what Hippocrate means.

[00:01:40] Hippocrate means that I say I am great Baba. Hippocrate means I know I am not dynast. Other that party, I am not dynast. I am absolutely not dynast.

[00:01:52] But the case is that the person who says this possibly ends up doing more than what the person he criticizes does.

[00:02:04] Let me elaborate this more clearly. You see, let's start with Maharashtra. You see, in Maharashtra, Bharatiya Janata Party seems to have more dynast contestant for the assembly elections than possibly any other party in a way.

[00:02:23] Okay, in Maharashtra, they have got Kalyan MLA, Ganpat Gaikwad, wife Sulup Gaikwad standing. They've got former CM Ashok Chavan's daughter. Ashok Chavan was used to be in Congress. Now he is in BJP.

[00:02:38] But now dynast is okay because his daughter is standing. Shri Jaya Chavan is standing for the election. Anil Shirote, his son, Siddam Shirote is standing for the elections. Ashish Shelar, his brother, Vinod Shelar is standing for the elections. And so on and so forth. List goes on.

[00:02:58] Not that other parties do not have their brothers and sisters and sons standing for the election. Not that other parties do not have. But then I want to talk about Bharatiya Janata Party because Bharatiya Janata Party said no.

[00:03:10] What is Gandhi Parivar? What is this Congress? Gandhi Parivar? Only Gandhi Parivar is getting all the seats. Okay.

[00:03:21] Now, let us start with Gandhi Parivar only. Let us start with the top. Mr. Narendra Modi used to say that, listen, you know what?

[00:03:31] Rahul Gandhi has got everything in a platter because he is from Gandhi Parivar. Rahul Gandhi has been given the position in a platter because he is from Gandhi Parivar.

[00:03:40] Rahul Gandhi is basically the Shehensha or whatever. Shehzada, sorry, not Shehensha. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Shehzada.

[00:03:48] Shehzada as he was called because everything was given to him in a platter. This is what Mr. Narendra Modi used to say.

[00:03:55] Now, I want to ask you a question. There is a gentleman called Jaisa. He is now the chairperson, the head of ICC, International Cricket Board.

[00:04:06] Till recently he was head of BCCI. Now, tell me, who is Jaisa? Was he a great cricketer?

[00:04:17] Was he a great sports person? Was he even a cricket statistician? Was he even a cricket commentator? What was he?

[00:04:26] Was he even a groundsman? What was he and what is his relation to cricket?

[00:04:33] If he was nobody in cricket and he has no relation to cricket, how did he become the BCCI chairperson?

[00:04:40] And how is he now the ICC chairperson? Pray tell me. The only qualification he has is he is the son of Amit Shah.

[00:04:50] Amit Shah's son, Jaisa became BCCI chairperson, ICC chairperson. Correct.

[00:04:57] Same way, Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi's son became once upon a time Congress President. Now he is a Congress member. He is a Congress MP and the leader of the opposition.

[00:05:07] What is wrong in that? What is the difference? Wrong, right? Otherwise we will discuss. But what is the difference?

[00:05:15] Wouldn't that fit into that word hypocrisy, I told you?

[00:05:18] It is all hypocrisy. You see, every, almost every dynast, almost every dynast of Congress jumped to Bharatiya Janata Party.

[00:05:35] Jyoti Raditya Sindhya, dynast. They were called Baba Brigade. Baba Brigade, you know.

[00:05:41] Where did he go? Bharatiya Janata Party. This gentleman Milindevra, he didn't go to Bharatiya Janata Party, he joined Bharatiya Janata Party alliance.

[00:05:51] That is Shiva Sena. Today Maharashtra may people will not join much of Bharatiya Janata Party because Bharatiya Janata Party is not very popular amongst in Maharashtra.

[00:06:00] But he jumped to Shiva Sena. He jumped to Shiva Sena. Shindeya Sivasena, who is allied with Bharatiya Janata Party.

[00:06:07] Who is he dynast? Who was his father? Murli Devra. Jumped to Bharatiya Janata Party. Shiva Sena.

[00:06:14] Okay. Every second person, every second person who happened to be the Baba Brigade once upon a time,

[00:06:22] which was a term given by somebody from Bharatiya Janata Party, who was supposed to be part of the Rahul Gandhi gang,

[00:06:31] all of them today are with Bharatiya Janata Party or with allied parties.

[00:06:37] So how is it fair now? So what does that mean?

[00:06:42] That means that either Bharatiya Janata Party should say that we are hypocrites and we are okay with that.

[00:06:50] It's okay. We will do something for winning. So we don't mind a little bit of hypocrisy.

[00:06:56] Or they should say that okay, we were wrong. Dynasty is okay.

[00:07:03] Because Dynasty is okay because finally people vote, no?

[00:07:06] So Dynasty is okay. We will hire people who are dynast.

[00:07:10] We will create dynast and we will allow them to stand for election.

[00:07:14] And if they win election, let them be ministers and whatever. That's okay.

[00:07:18] So BJP has to also agree then to the fact that we are metamorphosizing into Congress.

[00:07:27] We are metamorphosizing into Congress.

[00:07:30] Because everything that Congress did, Bharatiya Janata Party is doing it and possibly some of it, they are doing it better.

[00:07:39] So Basuri Swaraj is now an MP from Delhi. Who was she? Daughter of Sushma Swaraj.

[00:07:50] What is her qualification? Daughter of Sushma Swaraj.

[00:07:52] Now every argument that you want to put for her, there is a lot of argument for her.

[00:07:59] She won, she got the seats, she won by her own merit, people voted her.

[00:08:06] All that we can argue. But then all that argument goes for every dynast in this country.

[00:08:12] Rahul Gandhi also didn't win because Sonia Gandhi asked the people to vote or Sonia Gandhi came and voted.

[00:08:17] No, it is people who voted. No. So that argument goes for everybody.

[00:08:23] But the fact remains that when Congress did, it was wrong.

[00:08:26] And when Bharatiya Janata Party is doing it, it is right.

[00:08:31] And the most important thing is that currently if you look at Bharatiya Janata Party's roaster in Maharashtra,

[00:08:38] a lot of them are dynast.

[00:08:40] They are either brothers, daughters, sisters, etc. or nephews, etc. of the politician.

[00:08:50] Now like I said, it is not that it is only Bharatiya Janata Party, NCP, Congress.

[00:08:55] Everybody has the same.

[00:08:57] But Bharatiya Janata Party specifically because Bharatiya Janata Party's USP was that

[00:09:01] we will not have two people from the same family.

[00:09:05] We will not have two people from the same family.

[00:09:08] This is what their argument was.

[00:09:11] Now let me spend five more minutes on talking about dynast.

[00:09:16] A dynast carries forward his or her tradition.

[00:09:21] So what the father did, what the uncle did, what the brother did,

[00:09:25] the dynast carries forward that.

[00:09:27] So when you carry forward a tradition, what it means?

[00:09:33] It means that there is no scope for change.

[00:09:37] What it means that if there is no scope for change, then there is no scope for progress.

[00:09:46] If there is no scope for progress, then there is no scope for development.

[00:09:53] What I mean by that is if the traditional practice of fighting election based on caste,

[00:10:04] on religion, communal, this is going to continue.

[00:10:09] There will be no change because it is a working remedy.

[00:10:14] So traditionally it is going to continue.

[00:10:17] And that will ensure that the scope for progress, the scope for development,

[00:10:24] the scope for education, the scope for health, the scope for employment,

[00:10:30] the scope for economy, all of this will just go away.

[00:10:34] It will never happen.

[00:10:36] The change will never happen.

[00:10:38] And if the change doesn't happen,

[00:10:40] this country, our democracy is not going to change.

[00:10:43] We will remain the democracy that we were in 1950s.

[00:10:48] And if you look at it,

[00:10:50] in our politics, nothing much has changed.

[00:10:54] We still talk caste.

[00:10:57] We still talk religion.

[00:10:59] Nothing much has changed.

[00:11:01] And that is the biggest bane of dynast politics.

[00:11:08] If we promote this concept of dynasty,

[00:11:14] what is going to happen is no fresh blood.

[00:11:18] No common man will ever enter into politics or ever get an opportunity to enter into politics.

[00:11:27] Because to enter into politics,

[00:11:30] in the current situation in India,

[00:11:32] you require a party to both fund you and support you.

[00:11:37] Because as an independent,

[00:11:39] unless and until you are super rich or super famous,

[00:11:43] you cannot fight politics.

[00:11:46] You require the help of a political party to fund you and to put you in that position

[00:11:53] and to support you with your workers and with your supporters and rallies and others.

[00:11:59] So technically, today, the way things are,

[00:12:02] a political party is only supporting their kit and kin.

[00:12:06] So what about new faces?

[00:12:09] What about faces who have been working all their lives in politics?

[00:12:12] What about youngsters who have decided to serve politics,

[00:12:18] work in the field of politics?

[00:12:20] What about them?

[00:12:21] Their careers are limited to becoming the chamcha to the public representative.

[00:12:29] And possibly, possibly at some point in time,

[00:12:33] maybe,

[00:12:33] I am not saying this happens,

[00:12:35] but a lot of times this happens,

[00:12:37] collect money on behalf of the public representative,

[00:12:41] get work done on behalf of the public representative by collecting money.

[00:12:44] And that is where they start and that is where they end.

[00:12:50] So now in this case,

[00:12:53] if this is your ultimate,

[00:12:54] when you,

[00:12:55] if your common man has to enter into politics,

[00:12:57] think about it.

[00:12:58] Who will enter into politics?

[00:12:59] Do you think an intelligent IIMA or,

[00:13:03] or an IITN or a,

[00:13:05] business administrative guy,

[00:13:07] or a,

[00:13:08] or a smart creative guy,

[00:13:10] would these people enter politics?

[00:13:13] Because as an independent,

[00:13:14] if they don't get tickets from political party,

[00:13:16] they will never grow.

[00:13:17] They know,

[00:13:18] and they may not want to be,

[00:13:19] or forget about all of this.

[00:13:21] Will an honest man enter politics?

[00:13:23] Will an honest person enter politics?

[00:13:26] Because end of the day,

[00:13:27] he or she knows that their politics ends with the,

[00:13:31] with being the chamcha of the,

[00:13:33] of,

[00:13:33] of a dynasty.

[00:13:34] Their politics ends there.

[00:13:37] It doesn't grow from there.

[00:13:41] Now,

[00:13:42] every political party would come and say,

[00:13:44] we are different.

[00:13:45] BJP also said,

[00:13:47] we are different.

[00:13:47] And today,

[00:13:48] we are back.

[00:13:49] BJP back to where,

[00:13:51] Congress is.

[00:13:52] No difference.

[00:13:54] Possibly worse.

[00:13:56] So,

[00:13:57] the point is,

[00:13:58] what we lose,

[00:13:59] is good people,

[00:14:01] fresh blood,

[00:14:02] coming and working in politics,

[00:14:05] coming and working for the people,

[00:14:07] fresh ideas,

[00:14:08] coming and working for the people,

[00:14:10] fresh mind,

[00:14:11] possibly more fertile mind,

[00:14:14] working for the politics,

[00:14:15] where you take politics,

[00:14:17] beyond communal,

[00:14:18] caste,

[00:14:19] creed,

[00:14:20] division,

[00:14:20] and work towards health,

[00:14:22] growth,

[00:14:23] development.

[00:14:24] Those minds will never get an opportunity.

[00:14:27] This is what we lose.

[00:14:29] And the reason I am doing this editorial today,

[00:14:31] is because,

[00:14:32] end of the day,

[00:14:33] you and I elect these,

[00:14:35] dynast.

[00:14:38] Somebody great,

[00:14:38] you respect,

[00:14:39] his son stands,

[00:14:40] you elect him.

[00:14:40] Why?

[00:14:43] Is the son as great as the father?

[00:14:46] Or the mother?

[00:14:48] What has the son done?

[00:14:50] We don't ask those questions.

[00:14:51] We don't ask those questions.

[00:14:54] But if a great,

[00:14:56] if a CM's,

[00:14:56] or a popular politician's son,

[00:14:59] or daughter stands,

[00:14:59] we vote.

[00:15:01] More often than not,

[00:15:02] they get seats,

[00:15:03] they get votes,

[00:15:04] they get elected.

[00:15:06] More often than not,

[00:15:07] lots of times,

[00:15:08] like Jyotir Aditya Sindhya,

[00:15:09] they have lost also,

[00:15:10] that's a different issue.

[00:15:11] But,

[00:15:12] a lot of times,

[00:15:13] they win.

[00:15:14] The point that I am trying to make here,

[00:15:16] therefore,

[00:15:17] is as follows.

[00:15:19] Point number one,

[00:15:20] BJP,

[00:15:21] is as dynast,

[00:15:22] as any other political party,

[00:15:24] in this country.

[00:15:25] Number one.

[00:15:25] Number two.

[00:15:27] Somewhere down the line,

[00:15:29] if we start supporting dynast,

[00:15:32] we will never have intelligent,

[00:15:35] fresh blood coming,

[00:15:36] and representing us,

[00:15:38] in the parliament.

[00:15:39] Which means,

[00:15:40] that for the next hundred years,

[00:15:43] we will hear the same temple,

[00:15:45] masjid issues.

[00:15:47] We will hear the same caste,

[00:15:49] creed issues.

[00:15:50] We will hear the same freebie issues.

[00:15:53] We will never,

[00:15:54] see a person,

[00:15:55] who can stand,

[00:15:56] and actually talk about development,

[00:15:58] education,

[00:15:59] or health.

[00:16:00] We will never see.

[00:16:01] That's the point I wanted to make,

[00:16:03] till I see you next time,

[00:16:04] that's tomorrow at 10.

[00:16:05] Namaskar.

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