Political families, India
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10 political family tiffs
India Today April 27, 2015
Damayanti Datta
10 political family tiffs that have often turned ugly
A look at slugfests in political families that often turned disturbing
As the Gandhi vs Gandhi clamour hots up in Congress, a look at slugfests in political families that often turned disturbing.
INC President Sonia Gandhi vs son Rahul GandhI
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Mahatma Gandhi vs eldest son Harilal Mohandas Gandhi
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Indira Gandhi's husband Feroze Gandhi vs Jawaharlal Nehru
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Indira Gandhi vs Maneka Gandhi
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Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav vs son and Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav
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See also Samajwadi Party
Former PM H.D. Deve Gowda vs younger son H.D. Kumaraswamy
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Madhavrao Scindia vs mother Vijayaraje Scindia
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Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray vs nephew Raj Thackeray
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DMK chief M. Karunanidhi vs elder son M.K. Alagiri
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Leader of the People's Party of Punjab, Manpreet Singh Badal vs uncle Parkash Singh Badal
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Some other feuds
NETA FAMILY FEUDS, Oct 25 2016 : The Times of India
Yadavs are the latest in the list of political families facing a split as generations clash over way ahead for the party & roles they play
AIADMK
I n 1984, when MG Ramachandran was incapacitated after a stroke, Jayalalithaa reportedly tried to take over the position of CM. After MGR's death in Dec 1987, AIADMK split into two factions between Janaki (MGR's wife) and Jayalalithaa.Following AIADMK's rout in the 1989 state polls, the faction led by Janaki merged under that led by Jayalalithaa
TDP
In 1995, Chandrababu Naidu staged a coup against party founder NT Rama Rao, replacing him as Andhra's CM. Naidu would later say a “dushta shakti“ (referring to NTR's second wife Lakshmi Parvati) tried to destroy the party and to protect it from the “evil force“ he had to revolt and split TDP. Members of the NTR family supported Naidu. After NTR died of a heart attack in Jan 1996, Parvati floated a rival faction TDP NTR. Both Naidu and she staked claim to NTR's legacy
DMK
Hints from party supremo Karunanidhi that his younger son MK Stalin was to be his political heir sparked tension in the DMK first family as MK Alagiri, Stalin's elder brother, openly vented his ire and accused his father of being “partial“ to his younger brother.
Alagiri was eventually expelled from DMK in 2014 for engaging in “anti party“ activities
Shiv Sena
Raj Thackeray resigned from his uncle Bal Thackeray's party in 2006 and went on to form the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. He had complained about being sidelined in the party and said “all I had asked for was respect (from `Matoshree', the Bandra residence of Thackeray and his son, Uddhav).All I got was insult and humiliation“
