New Delhi: Union Steel Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh (73) has enacted a farce of writing to Prime Minister Modi to quit the ministerial post and also the Rajya Sabha membership in line with the BJP’s ideology against “vanshvaad” (dynasty politics) after he got the Hisar Lok Sabha ticket to his IAS son Brijendra Singh.
He did not state that he had threatened to quit the party unless his son get the ticket. Is this not dynasty politics? Nor did he state that his wife Prem Lata Singh is also a BJP MLA in Haryana as that admission will mean indulging in dynasty politics.
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Grandson of Sir Chhotu Ram, a farm leader in the pre-Indepence era, Birender has been Congress MLA five times as also once an MP from Hisar. He was also elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2010 on the Congress ticket. He, however, resigned from Rajya Sabha and Congress in 2014 to join BJP and got re-elected to Rajya Sabha in June 2016 and he was then inducted in the Union cabinet.
Asked why he is bringing his 46-year old son into politics instead of serving the nation as an IAS officer, the minister quipped: “He has a legacy to follow which I inherited from my grandfather Sir Chhotu Ram. We are all heir of that legacy to serve the downtrodden and peasantry.” He refused to comment when asked if this is not the way perpetuating the dynastic politics by bringing son in his place.
