Nephews and succession planning: Lessons from politics and business

Meritocracy and dint of hard work have marked the rise of nephew in business leadership; in politics, dynastic mindsets and opportunism have driven the trend

Last Sunday, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supreme Mayawati appointed her nephew Akash Anand the National Coordinator of the political outfit. Reports suggest that he is widely tipped to be her political heir. Mayawati, a critic of dynastic poilitics, seems to have turned a blind eye to that. 

Clearly, nephews, especially those of political leaders, are increasingly in the news and on the rise these days. 

There are other prominent nephews in the political sphere apart from Anand, such as Trinamool Congress supremo Mamta Banerjee's nephew, Abhishek Banerjee and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar’s grand-nephew Parth Ajit Pawar (son