Countdown for fall of dynasty rule has begun: UP minister

Commenting on Congress chief Rahul Gandhi's remarks against senior leaders for the party's poll rout, Uttar Pradesh minister Shrikant Sharma said "a bad workman quarrels with his tools".

Amid rumblings within the party after a disastrous performance in the Lok Sabha polls, Gandhi is said to have accused three senior leaders of placing their respective sons above the party, sources said.

"It is a joke that a person, who himself is a product of dynasty rule, is talking about placing sons over party as the reason behind Congress' debacle this general election," Sharma told reporters here on Saturday.

"The countdown for the fall of dynasty rule has begun," he said.

The power minister alleged Gandhi was appointed as the Congress president over other competent names "due to the same dynasty rule".

Sharma also attributed the poor showing of the Samajwadi Party (SP) in the elections to "wrong decisions" of its president Akhilesh Yadav.

Akhilesh's decision to contest the assembly elections ...