"While there can be little doubt that the Congress is unravelling under the (non) leadership of the Gandhi family, reflected in the party's atrocious electoral graph (and a never-ending exodus of leaders), voters don't appear to have a problem with dynastic politics per se. If anything, with the exception of the Gandhi family, the Indian voters' appetite for dynastic politics seems undiminished.
"Presently, at least seven Chief Ministers of major Indian states are dynasts: MK Stalin (Tamil Nadu), Navin Patnaik (Odisha), Uddhav Thackeray (Maharashtra, with another dynast - Ajit Pawar - as his deputy), Basavaraj Bommai (Karnataka), Jagan Mohan Reddy (Andhra Pradesh), KCR (Telangana), Hemant Soren (Jharkhand)," writes Sreenivasan Jain.