Supreme court passed a ruling that the MPs , MLAs and MLCs who are convicted in a case will be disqualified on the date of conviction. It scrapped the provision in the act which provided the legislators a 3 month window period where they can appeal to a higher court and keep their seats as long as the case is pending.
In the TV discussions yesterday, it was really comic to see the politicians of both major political parties to defend this ruling and saying meekly that it is their personal opinion and they do not know what is party's opinion yet. Do they have doubts that the parties from which they are elected would not want the criminals to be disqualified?
How lame is my question? In the scenario where 30% of these MPs and MLAs have criminal case and 14% have serious cases against them. And these " rulers who have broken the rules " do not belong to one party. All parties small and large have criminals as their legislators and parliamentarians.
And one of these programs on news channel, one lady was trying to outshout Arnab (which is not an easy task itself) saying that an MP (was it an MLA) who has a criminal case is discussed in that show only after he joined her party. Not when he was in the "other" party. And when asked whether after all these, will that said convicted person be given a ticket for next election, she told that it will be decided at the time of election.Really! This is the respect they give to supreme court and also to common citizen.
But they are our representatives. 30% of Indian citizens elect a criminal in the election and send him to rule them. If these politicians with criminal cases are their, our representatives, does that mean we are all criminals. We, the law abiding, tax paying citizens, who mutely watch this tamasha called Indian Politics, are we criminals. It is time we decide this for ourselves and for our country.
In the TV discussions yesterday, it was really comic to see the politicians of both major political parties to defend this ruling and saying meekly that it is their personal opinion and they do not know what is party's opinion yet. Do they have doubts that the parties from which they are elected would not want the criminals to be disqualified?
How lame is my question? In the scenario where 30% of these MPs and MLAs have criminal case and 14% have serious cases against them. And these " rulers who have broken the rules " do not belong to one party. All parties small and large have criminals as their legislators and parliamentarians.
And one of these programs on news channel, one lady was trying to outshout Arnab (which is not an easy task itself) saying that an MP (was it an MLA) who has a criminal case is discussed in that show only after he joined her party. Not when he was in the "other" party. And when asked whether after all these, will that said convicted person be given a ticket for next election, she told that it will be decided at the time of election.Really! This is the respect they give to supreme court and also to common citizen.
But they are our representatives. 30% of Indian citizens elect a criminal in the election and send him to rule them. If these politicians with criminal cases are their, our representatives, does that mean we are all criminals. We, the law abiding, tax paying citizens, who mutely watch this tamasha called Indian Politics, are we criminals. It is time we decide this for ourselves and for our country.
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