Criminal Politicians

An MP is caught tarfficking human beings. Well, I could not expect anything worse than this. I don't have the words to quantify the shame it brings for a democracy.

Should we think about who we elect and how our democracy works. I was not surprised when I found some months ago that a BBC report termed India as one of most flawn democracy. Ours is a real democartic country. Since the independence we never had a military goverment or dictatioship of any kind. We elected our own representative. Question is who we elected. For a long period after the independence politics was dominated by family and kinship succession. Our grand fathers elected the grand fathers of the person we elect today. The marked addition to this alreayd flawn system is the inclusion of criminals in politics. Not all poticians have criminal recored, neither all with criminal cases are criminals. However, a vast majority of them have indirect involvement in criminality like sheltering criminals, using criminal elements of our society for political aims.

It's at this link that we shoudl focus our attention. Why are criminals sheltered or patronized by political leader, what kind of poltical goal can be achieved with help of criminals? Answering this question would reveal that how voting behavior of ordinary people can be influence by the criminal elements. It is well the case in some very poor states in India. Other gain from politicians association with criminal elements is economic. The liberal and slow moving judiciary system has infact encouraged criminality in our country. It follows from the simple logic that gain from criminal activity is huge and chance of being caught and punished is low, even lower if the political shelter is avaiable. This is infact complete circle, politicians and criminals butressing each other.