It seems even after sighting so many examples the exhaustive list has just begun. Former Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh’s son is now the Member of Parliament representing the Barmer-Jaislmer constituency of Rajasthan.

Even the leaders from the Dalit sections, too, have their presence in this roll call. To begin with, incumbent Union Cabinet Minister Meira Kumar is the daughter of Late Babu Jagjeevan Ram the veteran of Dalit politics.

If the Indian list of politics of families tries to distance from the US affairs then let us move again to the family offshoots of the American politics.

If one goes by the statistics, politics has never before, been such a big family affair. Two children of retiring members, republican Gus Bilirakis of Florida and Democrat Chris Owens of New York want to succeed in taking the places vacated by them.

Sons of two Governors, Democrat Bob Casey in Pennsylvania and Republican Tom Kean in New Jersey are eying the seats in Senate. In other examples John Sarbanes son of Senator Paul Sarbanes and Peter Beilenson, son of former California representative Anthony Beilenson are trying for the same Democratic House nomination in Maryland.

To cap it all, Jack Carter, son of former President Jimmy Carter, in Nevada is running for Senate. If it looks that something very important is missing from the high profile list of connections, the incumbent President of United States of America is himself the son of a former US President George Bush Senior. Bush’s brother Jeb Bush who is also a Governor of

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