Madhya Pradesh polls: Every fifth candidate is a relative of a BJP leader

Congress leaders have already started calling the BJP the Bharatiya Janata 'Pariwar'

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has time and again blamed the Congress party and the Gandhi family for foisting dynastic politics on the nation. But in Madhya Pradesh, the party might find it difficult to follow the same strategy given the number of senior leaders fighting to secure tickets for their kin. Till now, the party has announced 225 candidates who would run for the coming Assembly elections; of that, at least 42 are sons, wives or close relatives of senior BJP leaders. In other words, every fifth candidate in the state is a relative of a BJP leader. Former chief