Vajpayee, Advani for gen-next leadership: Jaitley

New Delhi, Sep 3 (UNI) Admitting that the BJP is in the process of undergoing change where the second generation leaders would emerge on top, party General Secretary Arun Jaitley today said the party top guns Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani were actively encouraging new leadership.

Claiming that it was only the BJP and the Left parties which has ''structured political set-up'' in the country, Mr Jaitley said the party was going through the process of generational change and today only these two parties were supporting and encouraging such a step.

Speaking to CNN-IBN in an interview, he said most political parties in the country, including Indian National Congress, were ''family, personality or caste driven'' and there was no doubt about their successors and inheritors adopting the same line.

Mr Jaitley said the generational change was already on in the BJP-ruled states with almost all the Chief Ministers in their early 50s and the situation was the same in the central leadership of the party where the next generation political functionaries were also in the same age group.

''The leadership change does not happen by default but it is a conscious choice,'' he asserted.

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