Dynastic parties democracy’s biggest foe: PM

Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and exuded confidence that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will storm to power after assembly elections next year.
Addressing party workers at Begumpet Airport here, he said the BJP desired to develop the state into a tech hub.
Attacking dynastic politics, Modi called it the biggest enemy of democracy.
He said development begins when dynastic politics end and underlined that the BJP wanted “development” in the southern state.
“‘Parivarvadi’ parties only think about their own development. These parties do not care about poor people, their politics is focused on how a single family can stay in power and loot as much as they can,” he said, his target being the Telangana Chief Minister, widely known as KCR.
“They do not have any interest in the development of people,” he said, adding that the BJP wanted to develop Telangana as a “technology hub”.
“Our aspiration is to take Telangana to a higher level,” thundered Modi.
“Family rulers do not care about the poor. The people of Telangana are seeing how corrupt it can be if a single family was in power.”
He added: “The Telangana movement was full of sacrifices. These sacrifices were not made so that one family continues to crush the dreams of Telangana. Parivarwaadi are not only India’s political problem, dynastic politics and such parties are the biggest enemies of the democracy and youth of the country.”
“When parties dedicated to one family comes to power, they become the biggest source of corruption. Their only concern is to ensure that one family somehow continues to occupy power and loot as much as they can.”
The Prime Minister expressed confidence that the BJP will come to power in Telangana.
Modi has often slammed dynastic politics. He has in the past targeted the Congress, Samajwadi Party and RJD.
Chief Minister KCR went to Bengaluru to meet former Prime Minister and JD(S) leader H D Deve Gowda before the arrival of Modi in Hyderabad.
This is the second time in recent months that KCR missed a meeting with the Prime Minister in the state.