Finally, in sharp contrast to the trend in the rest of the world, gerontocracy afflicts both the mainstream parties. In the BJP, younger leaders like Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj have made a mark but the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate is 80. The Congress, too, has some promising young MPs, 23 of them scions of prominent past leaders. Only a handful of the youngsters have just been made ministers of state. But, with the exception of Sonia Gandhi, others wielding power at the top are above 70.
The writer is a political commentator
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