New Delhi, June 19 -- Union Minister for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh on Friday took a dig at Trinamool Congress leadership over the rift in the party after defeat in the assembly polls and said all the family-centred parties have a very limited life span, and their decline begins when they lose power.

In an interview with ANI, the Union Minister also said that rift can also occur when the next generation takes responsibilities.

"All the family-centred parties have a very limited life span, and their decline begins when they lose power... Another decline begins when the next generation comes in, and they start fighting among themselves... I think this was expected, and it had to happen this way," he said.

He was answering a qu...