Political dynasty in India
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The document summarizes dynastic politics in India. It discusses prominent political families in India like the Scindias and Thackerays. It notes that while less than half of MPs have no family political background, over a third entered politics through family connections. Younger MPs and those under 40 are more likely to have hereditary political backgrounds. The Congress party has the most hereditary MPs, with over a third of its MPs coming from political families. Regional parties also have higher proportions of hereditary MPs than national parties.
Political dynasty in India
- 1. Designed by Jobin Mathew
- 2. Dynastic Politics in India
- 3. Agenda Introduction Political Families Advantages and Disadvantages Statistics
- 4. Dynastic Politics in India
- 5. Political Families
- 7. The Scindias (Former Maharajs)
- 9. K Company
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- 15. Advantages
- 16. Disadvantages
- 17. Prevent
- 18. Statistics
- 19. At first glance, it appears that less than half of all MPs in the current Lok Sabha have entered politics through the grassroots:
- 20. 46.8% of the MPs have no significant family political background. Three out of ten MPs (28.6%) entered politics through family connections. This did not seem a surprising statistic, but further investigation revealed more.
- 21. All MPs whose age is less than 30 years are hereditary. More than two-thirds of MPs aged under 40 are hereditary. 27 MPs are hyper hereditary, and 19 of them are in the Congress party. By hyper hereditary, we mean that they have several family members who have made a career out of politics. The average age of a hereditary MP is 48 years, whereas the average age of an MP with no significant family background is 58 years.
- 22. So which parties practice family politics? Congress leads the way in dynasty politics. All 11 Congress MPs under 35 years are hereditary.
- 23. The proportion of hereditary MPs in Congress (37.5%) is approximately equal to the proportion of Congress MPs who do not have any significant family background (40.4%).
- 24. Regional parties have a higher incidence of hereditary MPs, in comparison to the national parties. Here are some statistics:
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