Can't a single person be as nasty as dynasty?

The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi called for increased democracy within political parties and an end to dynastic politics, which means the Congress. We have not seen the BJP, Modi's own party, holding elections for leadership on a regular basis, but he must know more than we do. The BJP won 312 seats in the UP Assembly election this year, of which 83 have serious criminal cases filed against them. Who gave them tickets? Modi and his friend, Amit Shah. There are many debates of funding of political parties and election expenses in India, but not on inner workings of these parties, suggested Modi. "The distinction between the two issues -- of political funding and intra-party democracy -- may not be as great as Modi thinks," said an editorial in the Mint. The anti-defection law ensures absolute loyalty from party members, local area development schemes, known as MPLADS and MLALADS, give an unfair advantage to sitting politicians, leading to patronage, and opaque political funding, all combine to reduce democracy within parties. "It is difficult to imagine a leader challenging either Modi or party president Amit Shah and still retaining a future in the BJP." The change in the law on political financing by this government was "Body blow for political transparency", wrote M Vaishnav. Companies can buy bearer bonds from banks and transfer them to parties without disclosing the spending in their accounts, and there is no independent audit of parties. Three years after passing a diluted Lokpal bill the government has not appointed one as yet. The government argued against appointing a Lokpal in front of the Supreme Court but its arguments were rejected. Why are we still waiting? The Central Vigilance Commission reported 50 cases of corruption and nepotism, but no action has been taken. The government instructed public sector undertakings to finance events celebrating its three years in office. This is no different to what dynasties do. For such a lover of democracy, Modi only speaks to foreign journalists and not to Indian ones, when his Attorney General argued in the Supreme Court that citizens of India do not have any rights over our own bodies. A strong leader has an interest in allowing corruption to flourish because then he can arrest anyone who disagrees with him, wrote Prof K Basu. While we are having to provide fingerprints for a few lousy rupees, in Modi's valiant fight against corruption, trillions of rupees are in offshore accounts. They were given lots of time to transfer funds from Switzerland to banks is Asia. Half of all Indians had to pay bribes to civil servants last year. At 1.3 billion population that is a lot of bribes. Perhaps, we are not supposed to take Modi's tirade against dynasties seriously. Perhaps, its all jumla.