In a few months from now India is going to its Sixteenth General Election. This is the time to introspect. Let us know about one major setback which has crept its way into our polity, and see if anything can be done, or at least needs to be done in cleaning the system. Unless we have a clean public life, nothing will happen.

Criminalization of Indian Polity:

In a democracy, the elected representatives are responsible for governing the country; therefore, it is of utmost importance, that the people who enter the field of politics have a clean image and a high moral character. However the reality is otherwise. Criminalisation of politics has many forms, but perhaps the most alarming amongst them is the significant number of elected representatives with criminal charges pending against them. It is high time that we amend our Election Laws to tackle the problem of Criminal Politicians. Therefore, it would be appropriate for us to first gauge the real extent to which the criminalization has seeped within the Indian Polity. In furtherance of this endeavour we hereby produce the statistical trends of recent years: