Congress is accused of practicing dynasticism like any regional party but it seems that Congress does not care about it. On the contrary, she practices familyism more openly. In a way, he has responded to this criticism by saying that if more familyism is practiced than before, then this issue will automatically go away. In this thinking, when she hits back at the charge of nepotism, she also accuses BJP of doing nepotism and after that, she promotes members of some more new families into politics. If this continues, no one else will get tickets in Congress except MPs, MLAs, former MPs and families of former MLAs.
This time’s by-election is a big example of this. By-elections are being held on four seats in Punjab, in which Congress has started new familyism on two seats. Raja Amarinder Singh Waring had won the Gidderbah seat last time. This time he won the Lok Sabha elections and the seat became vacant. When the by-elections were announced, Congress without any hesitation made Amrita Waring, wife of Raja Amarinder Singh Waring, its candidate. Similar is the case of Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa. When he became MP from Gurdaspur, his Dera Baba Nanak assembly seat became vacant. Congress gave ticket to his wife Jatinder Kaur in the by-election on this seat. Think, the party cannot decide on its own the assembly seats of the leaders whom the party has sent to the Lok Sabha. Similarly, when Rahul Gandhi’s seat has become vacant, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has gone to Wayanad, Kerala to fight for it.