NEW DELHI: The influence of Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has cemented the idea that political ladership can be a birthright, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said.

"For decades, one family has towered over Indian politics. The influence of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty – including independent India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, prime ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, and current opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra – is bound up with the history of India’s struggle for freedom. But it has also cemented the idea that political leadership can be a birthright. This idea has penetrated Indian politics across every party, in every region, and at every level," the Congress MP said.

Tharoor pointed out that dynastic succession is not limited to the Congress. In Maharasht

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