Family and dynasty are very bad words in Indian politics. Or not, as the case may be. When it comes to the descendants of India’s first prime minister, dynasty is a very bad word seeing as how three members of that family were all prime ministers and one daughter-in-law ran the Congress Party and another daughter-in-law joined another party. As of now, two of Jawaharlal Nehru’s great grandsons are Members of Parliament.

Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray find themselves in a position the chief family elder may never have envisaged: Is either of them ready to jump into the electoral fray and try and become chief minister of Maharashtra? File pic