Politics in India has become a family business and media has been raising this issue time and again. The Samajwadi Party has also received the brunt of similar allegations for the rise of few members of Netaji’s family, particularly his son Akhilesh.
Akhilesh is now third time MP and has distinction of winning from 2 Loksabha seats in 2009. Akhilesh entered Parliament for the first time in 2000 after wining bye-election. Since then he has presented himself as people friendly …

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A peculiar trend has emerged in contemporary politics; diversity of politics is today viewed as enmity. There was a time when bitter prominent political rivals used to be immensely respected by establishment some time even more than members of ruling party. Once, Shri Pranab Mukherjee told me that he was badly ticked of by Mrs. Indira Gandhi for his comments about Shri Bupesh Gupta and Chaudhary Charan Singh in spite of the fact that both these gentlemen were not at …

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