"In the BJP, the election for the party president is held every three years. Anyone can tell who will come after me. But in the Congress, Sonia Gandhi is the president. Everybody knows who will be the next," Shah told a meeting of the city's intellectuals.
Any party which does not have the internal democracy cannot do any good to the country, he said adding on the other hand, only a party which has the internal democracy can bring about permanent changes to the country.
He said it has become rare now to find a party which goes runs on its ideology. "Only the BJP has that. Not the Congress nor the CPI-M".
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