It was just another visit to an online campaign site - NoCriminals.org - except the figures I saw shook me up. In the current Indian parliament(2004), one in five MPs had criminal records, including some with charges of heinous crimes such as murder, rape, dacoity and kidnapping. And, guess which political party leads in bringing these criminals to parliament? JMM led by their leader in the pic here! To even mention his name here would be giving him undue importance.
An astounding 100% of JMM members in parliament had criminal charges! The other top contributors to criminals in Parliament are shown in this screenshot from NoCriminals.org.
With this quality(!) of politicians filling up 20% of our Parliament, is it any surprise, that...
...we keep watching the noisy and violent drama in the House regularly,
...anti-corruption laws are never allowed to pass, the one's which pass are tweaked to be practically ineffective,
...the powers of Lokayukta are curbed to make them toothless,
...terrorists can walk in and out of country or attack at their whim.
The fact that it took 5 years for this information to come out is intriguing. Or, may be I was living under some rock. In any case, was the entire government, administration and judiciary sleeping for past 5 years? How can they allow such a thing to happen?
Time has come to put an end to this grave threat looming on our heads. It's time we join campaigns like NoCriminals, IndiaLightning, LeadIndia, National Election Watch, ADRIndia etc. to together make sure that criminals and corrupt DO NOT enter the Parliament in 2009. Please go out to vote, and say NO to criminals in Election 2009. It's a huge step for our combined future as a country. You don't have a choice.
Image courtesy: www.mid-day.com & NoCriminals.org
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