New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi may have said hedoes not like it, but 'family' is the real thing in politics,especially of the Congress variety.
A quick glance at the overwhelming number of the newlyelected young members of Parliament showed that families docount.
Most of the three dozen odd young and fresh faces ofthe Congress in the Lok Sabha have a family background ofpolitics which has helped them catapult to the national stagewithout much effort.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had recentlydescribed politics as a closed system in which one could getentry only through "dynasty and patronage".
The understanding of Gandhi of the Indian politicalsystem has come true in the Lok Sabha elections, particularlyfor the young MPs.
In his meetings of the youth Congress and the NSUI,Gandhi had insisted that he wanted to change the "closedsystem" of politics and open it to the talented youngsters andeven went ahead with internal elections for the IYC in Punjaband NSUI in Uttarakhand.
But it seems the idea of Gandhi will take time to findroots even in his own party.
The youngest MP of the Lok Sabha, Muhammed HamdullaSayeed, 26, is the son of Congress veteran and former UnionMinister P M Sayeed.
