Monday, January 25, 2010
Must clean politics of criminals: Sonia
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday reopened the debate on de-criminalising electoral politics by exhorting parties “to evolve a consensus” on barring those with criminal records from contesting polls.
IMO: I'm fairly sure that this view should be supported in some way and I am relieved to hear it. But so often when such people have been refused the right to stand, or for other reasons unable to do so, they simply appoint a spouse or other relative. Some say that was the case recently in Virar. And occasionally, a very worthy person is thus debarred from office, e.g. Mahatma Gandhi could have been. Phoolan Devi would be considered by some to be another. So whilst in principle we can applaud her view and I for one am relieved to hear it, what should be done in practice would take a lot of discussion, probably worth the effort for those not otherwise too busy and/or directly involved. And we also have cases like that of Tony Blair, who was considered honest, and for that matter a Protestant as well, before he was elected in the UK.
IMO: I'm fairly sure that this view should be supported in some way and I am relieved to hear it. But so often when such people have been refused the right to stand, or for other reasons unable to do so, they simply appoint a spouse or other relative. Some say that was the case recently in Virar. And occasionally, a very worthy person is thus debarred from office, e.g. Mahatma Gandhi could have been. Phoolan Devi would be considered by some to be another. So whilst in principle we can applaud her view and I for one am relieved to hear it, what should be done in practice would take a lot of discussion, probably worth the effort for those not otherwise too busy and/or directly involved. And we also have cases like that of Tony Blair, who was considered honest, and for that matter a Protestant as well, before he was elected in the UK.
# posted by uv : 6:01 PM
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