The Tempestuous Nehru Dynasty of India

Sanjay's Heir
Varun Gandhi, 29, the son of Maneka Gandhi, has brought the strongheaded dynastic style into a new generation. His reported anti-Muslim remarks in March 2009, in the walkup to parliamentary elections, have led to a popular uproar. Like his mother, he is a member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which is reveling in having a scion of the Nehru clan amidst its right-wing ranks. Observers point out that Varun is hardly an orthodox Hindu: his mother is a Sikh, his grandfather — Indira's husband — a Parsi, the descendant of Zoroastrians from Persia.

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