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How will Parliament and the assemblies be filled ever again? That was the first question that popped up when the Logger came across the headline that MPs and MLAs with criminal convictions will be disqualified. If political parties couldn't clean their stables, the Supreme Court has valiantly stepped in to rid the system, yes, the much-maligned system, of its rotting apples and their cider-like grip on power be it through caste or be it through sheer bahubali terror.
Criminal MLAs: Zero from Manipur, 189 from Uttar Pradesh
Indian politics has been yearning for such a game-changing move for quite some time. Most elderly people in India recall a time of relative cleanliness in politics before the late 1960s the era that saw the ascension of Indira Gandhi and her accomplices. What was allowed in then became a circus by the time her younger son took matters in his own hands and went about disregarding the basic tenets of the Constitution whereby the Emergency was promulgated to curb the democratic protests that blossomed in reaction to the moves and countermoves of Sanjay Gandhi.
Much water has flowed down the Ganga since then. The centrist opposition to the Congress split into multiple streams following the implementation of the Mandal Commission report (stage 1). By now, the non-Hindutva opposition had ceased to be a one party entity and became caste outfits like the numerous permutations and combinations involving J (the Janata J) and S (Samaj), you get the drift.
Most leaders and activists of these parties have had criminal cases against them. Some may have been foisted given that the Grand Old Party knew how to milk the law in its attempt to muzzle the opposition but most others were those who started in politics because they were the neighbourhood toughs. Toughs usually end up on the wrong side of the law, check with any Hollywood or Bollywood film. The only difference will be that the neighbourhood tough is usually the protagonist in the West while some skinny do-gooder will be thrashing the Hindi film tough, played by someone like the muscled Sharat Saxena.
The tainted MP-MLA is not a creature native to the North, the South has its members too.
No one has asked political parties to be made accountable for foisting these tainted on them yet, sorry the Aam Aadmi Party has. But no one heeds a party whose leaders asks one not to pay the power bill. The sadder fact, if the Logger be allowed to say it, is that the parties have not been able to keep their ranks intact against these elements that seek power only to gain their pound of flesh and keep cutting away at the people protected by the cover that power provides.
Special: Indian politicians are saints
The Logger is yet to celebrate this Supreme Court order since disqualification will happen only on conviction. Many a times the cup has missed the lip in criminal cases with prosecution witnesses changing their minds, again a loophole the tainted know works well with the minimal effort. But it is to be said that this is the 21st century answer to ensure that the people who get to change the Constitution, if they wish to, at least have a clean past.
SC tells politicians again: Crime Doesn't Pay : India, News - India Today
Criminal MLAs: Zero from Manipur, 189 from Uttar Pradesh
Indian politics has been yearning for such a game-changing move for quite some time. Most elderly people in India recall a time of relative cleanliness in politics before the late 1960s the era that saw the ascension of Indira Gandhi and her accomplices. What was allowed in then became a circus by the time her younger son took matters in his own hands and went about disregarding the basic tenets of the Constitution whereby the Emergency was promulgated to curb the democratic protests that blossomed in reaction to the moves and countermoves of Sanjay Gandhi.
Much water has flowed down the Ganga since then. The centrist opposition to the Congress split into multiple streams following the implementation of the Mandal Commission report (stage 1). By now, the non-Hindutva opposition had ceased to be a one party entity and became caste outfits like the numerous permutations and combinations involving J (the Janata J) and S (Samaj), you get the drift.
Most leaders and activists of these parties have had criminal cases against them. Some may have been foisted given that the Grand Old Party knew how to milk the law in its attempt to muzzle the opposition but most others were those who started in politics because they were the neighbourhood toughs. Toughs usually end up on the wrong side of the law, check with any Hollywood or Bollywood film. The only difference will be that the neighbourhood tough is usually the protagonist in the West while some skinny do-gooder will be thrashing the Hindi film tough, played by someone like the muscled Sharat Saxena.
The tainted MP-MLA is not a creature native to the North, the South has its members too.
No one has asked political parties to be made accountable for foisting these tainted on them yet, sorry the Aam Aadmi Party has. But no one heeds a party whose leaders asks one not to pay the power bill. The sadder fact, if the Logger be allowed to say it, is that the parties have not been able to keep their ranks intact against these elements that seek power only to gain their pound of flesh and keep cutting away at the people protected by the cover that power provides.
Special: Indian politicians are saints
The Logger is yet to celebrate this Supreme Court order since disqualification will happen only on conviction. Many a times the cup has missed the lip in criminal cases with prosecution witnesses changing their minds, again a loophole the tainted know works well with the minimal effort. But it is to be said that this is the 21st century answer to ensure that the people who get to change the Constitution, if they wish to, at least have a clean past.
SC tells politicians again: Crime Doesn't Pay : India, News - India Today
