It is cake-walk for a criminal or a person who is involved with the and in the criminal activities and numerous criminal cases pending against such, yet they are allowed to contest to be a law-maker. Life turned topsy turvy for a common man when one accidentally fell prey to a minor problem with the law. Not necessarily a real one. However, the lawmaker can do away with it. The alleged murderer, thieves, dacoit and rapist all are in fray for the upcoming election. Why on earth is this happening and how can we stop it?
With an unlimited number of political parties India has been astoundingly increased and no political parties follow any principle or ethics. While giving tickets to the candidate, parties only bother about the win-loss equation but never follow the mushroom growth of political parties. This is not the result of upgrading in political standard; nor is it because more competent and service-minded persons are entering the field of politics, determined to serve the country and its people. On the contrary, it is a definite indication of political standards going down to appalling levels. The field of politics nowadays does not attract altruistic gentlemen, eager to use their expertise and time for nation-building; it attracts rowdies and criminals with a proven record of hooliganism, who want to become rich quickly and dominate the officials and respectable citizens. Subject to rare exceptions, in short, the politics in India has become a money-making business for criminals.
None of the political parties bothers with the problem and the duty towards the citizens of the country. They do not promote nationalism and obligation to nation-building. They do not want to bond with the people of the nation by pressurizing the significance of harmonious living. On the contrary, they achieve the dissimilarity among the people and make full use of those divergences for creating discrepancy among them.
A brand of politics supports electorates to vote on the basis of narrow communal considerations, often against their better judgment, it is considered inimical to democracy. It can happen only in India, where vote-bank politics scores decisively over national interest and issues relating to India's sovereignty. These political parties and independent candidates have astronomical expenditures called vote buying and other illegitimate purposes through these criminals or so called Goons. Politicians link them in their respective constituencies & it develops political crime. People do not know why they comprise the majority of voters of this country. Therefore the majority of the voters are purchasable. We all have also witnessed that the political parties are given cabinet posts because of their muscle and money power fetches critical votes to them. There is a possible vote bank including those who are accused robbers and murders.
Corruption: As of December 2008, 120 of India's 523 parliament members were facing criminal charges. Many of the biggest scandals since 2010 have involved very high levels of government, including Cabinet Ministers and Chief Ministers, such as in the 2G spectrum scam, the 2010 Commonwealth Games scam and the Adarsh Housing Society scam, Coal Mining Scam, mining scandal in Karnataka and cash for vote scam. Politicians are alleged to steal state property. In cities and villages throughout India, elected politicians acquire, develop and sell land in illegal ways. In 2012 India was ranked 94th out of 176 countries in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. In Indian politics in every election all parties have put up their candidates with a criminal background. By acting in such manner we fail to realize that the greatest power that the democracy arms the people is to vote incompetent people out of power.
!!!It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald!!!
!!!The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. - John Jay Chapman!!!