DYNASTIC | Former Karnataka CM POLITICS IN BJP and current BJP The rise of the Munde vice-president family in Maharashtra B S YEDDYURAPPA’S son politics has put the Raghavendra is an MLA spotlight on dynastic from Shikaripura. politics within the | Home Minister RAJNATH | Pankaja Munde-Palve Bharatiya Janata Party SINGH’S son Pankaj is a (top right), daughter of the (BJP), even as its top general secretary of BJP’s leadership continued to late GOPINATH MUNDE, has UP unit. won a successive Assembly decry the Congress’ | Former finance minister election from Parli. She dynastic politics. There are YASHWANT defeated her first cousin, numerous instances of SINHA’S son Nationalist Congress dynastic politics at the state Jayant Party candidate and civic body levels. (pictured) is an Dhananjay Munde. Her Here’s a list of some prominent political MP from sister, Preetam Munde, families of the BJP: Hazaribagh. won the Lok Sabha by-poll from her father’s | Senior leader LALJI constituency of Beed. TANDON’S son Ashutosh Pankaja’s and Preetam’s was elected party MLA (top left) first cousin, from Lucknow East in Poonam Mahajan, the recent by-polls to daughter of Pramod UP Assembly. Mahajan, is a Lok Sabha | Minister for Power, MP from Mumbai Coal and North-Central. New and | VASUNDHARA RAJE is Renewable chief minister of energy Rajasthan. Her son Piyush Dushyant Singh Goyal (pictured) is the son of former minister and party treasurer late VED PRAKASH GOYAL. member from | Madhya Pradesh Pilibhit in Minister of State for Culture (top left) is a Lok Sabha MP. Uttar Pradesh Surendra Patwa is the Raje’s sister, and the nephew of former state CM Yashodhara Raje Scindia Women and SUNDERLAL PATWA. Child Develo- (top right), is the industries | Ajay Malhotra, son of minister in Madhya pment minister in the Modi government. Her son senior leader VK Pradesh. (Vasundhara MALHOTRA, unsuccessfully Raje’s nephew, Varun Gandhi (pictured) is an MP from Sultanpur, UP. contested the Delhi Jyotiraditya Scindia, is Assembly elections of 2013, a Congress MP) | Former UP CM and as did Rajiv Babbar, son of | Chhattisgarh Chief Rajasthan Governor KALYAN Delhi BJP leader Minister RAMAN SINGH’S SINGH’S son,Rajveer, is an O P BABBAR. MP from Etah. son, Abhishek, is Lok | Lalitha Sabha MP from | Former Delhi CM (late) Kumaramangalam, Rajnandgaon. SAHIB SINGH VERMA’S son, (pictured) | Former Himachal Parvesh, is an MP from National Pradesh chief Delhi. Commission minister PREM | External Affairs Minister for Women KUMAR SUSHMA chairperson, is DHUMAL’S son, SWARAJ’S sister a BJP spokes- Anurag Vandana person. She is the daughter Thakur, Sharma of socialist leader MOHAN (pictured) is Lok Sabha (pictured) lost KUMARAMANGALAM and member from Hamirpur. the Assembly sister of former BJP minister | MANEKA GANDHI is a poll from Safidon in Haryana. P R KUMARAMANGALAM. — Compiled by Archis Mohan