House of People aka Loksabha aka aristocracy

I was wondering over recent trend of making sons and wives of political leaders contest elections and felt that almost all parties across India are doing this and so I decided to check and results are startling some 17 MPs died in this Loksabha, four of the seats are still vacant in other 13 except 3 seats where CPI(M) won ( two in bengal and one in kerala) all other parties BJP, congress, SP, Shivsena, JMM, JD (U),TDP put sons or wives of deceased leader as candidate and barring 2/10 in 8 cases they won also.

muzaffarnagar up SP empty
hathras up bjp empty
chikmagalur karnataka bjp empty
thane maharashta SS son of late MP Paranjape his opponent was son of NCP minister
betul mp bjp son of late mp vijay khandelwal
bidar karnataka bjp Basavaraj Arya, son of Ramachandra Veerappa
mumbi nw maharashta congres priya dutt, daughter of sunil dutt
trivendrum kerala cpim P raveeendran
asnasol bengal cpim bangsagopal chowdhry
sangli maharashta congress prateek patil, son of veerendra patil
malda bengal congree abu hasem khan chowdhry, brother of abdul gani khan chowdhry
katwa bengal cpim ayesh mondal outsider
bobbilli AP TDP K naiduson of late MP, congress nominated wife of a mnister
bikramganj bihar jd u mina devi wife of deceased mp
balia up SP son of late PM chnadrashekhar BSP candidate was sone of a minister
jamshedpur Jharkhand JMM punam mahto wife of late MP
tehri gahdwal UttaranchalBJP Late MP (who was former king and MP since 1957) his son lost. Agaisnt him was congress candidate son of former CM

So this partly explains why political parties find it difficult to get workers when an average worker has no hope of getting ticket ( most of these MPs were contesting election since 5-6 times) and even if old men die their sons and wives take the mantle then what remains for the worker.

At independence congress leaders were vociferous in their demand for abolishing princely states but our democracy has created new princes in just a time of 60 years. At least those princes had a moral duty towards their subjects while these new princes are brazen power mongers.


This loksabha had one more distinction almost 40 MPs resigned in five years while another 27 were expelled so in all 84 MPs were not member any more. this almost 15% of total strength which shows how much importance party gives to candidate selection for Loksabha. even if one is old, of questionable reputation ,has criminal antecedents or an eye on local state politics he is chose for loksabha because he can win and add to that magic number of 272.