India cannot afford to have non-politician as PM: Jaitley

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said the country cannot afford to have a non-politician as the Prime Minister.

"India suffered for a decade, amongst various factors and which I strongly believe, that India cannot afford to have a non-politician as a Prime Minister. A Prime Minister has to be a decisive leader," Jaitley said while speaking at The India Global Forum event.

"He is not going to be eventually judged by how many years he stayed in years. He is going to be judged by the footprints he leaves behind," he added.

Talking about the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Jaitley took a jibe at the dynasty politics.

"After long time we saw an election in India, where the dominant issues were governance issues, there were issues relating to corruption, issues relating to probity, issues relating to the economy or the management of the economy or its mismanagement earlier, and third most important there were issues relating to quality of leadership," Jaitley said.

"Almost all parties which relied on charisma of families by and large did badly. I hardly find exception to this principle. It's probably necessary that this myth that only dynasties can produce charisma has to be demolished," he added.