Many political analysts have questioned the dynastic succession of Rajiv. They forget that Indira Congress had the right to choose a leader who could keep his mother’s party together and keep happy the power barnacles attached to it by distributing the spoils of office. People who confuse Indira Congress with the Indian National Congress of post-independence days obviously have been caught in the time-wrap. The new Congress was not even a clone of the past one. It was a mutant.
