{"id":32831,"date":"2018-10-29T16:37:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32831"},"modified":"2018-10-29T16:37:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:07:52","slug":"in-parliaments-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-parliaments-court\/","title":{"rendered":"In Parliament\u2019s court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/in-parliaments-court\/article25090277.ece\">In Parliament\u2019s court<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Article<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Author raising concern over rising criminalization of Politics in India and an inefficient mechanism to deal with it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Analysis:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Author has talked about the issue of candidates facing criminal charges getting elected in Parliament and State Legislature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Data presented by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are more than 1,500 MPs and MLAs in Parliament and State Assemblies with criminal cases pending against them.<\/li>\n<li>More than 100 MPs are charged with crimes against women and kidnapping<\/li>\n<li>In Upper House; of 228 members of the Rajya Sabha for whom data could be analyzed, 20 have cases of serious crimes pending against them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4. The court mentioned that it was not within its powers to disqualify politicians facing criminal cases from contesting election, but recommended that Parliament enact a strong law.<\/p>\n<p>5. However, the court made it mandatory for political parties and candidates themselves to make public disclosure through print and electronic media about their criminal records.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Some important changes in the electoral laws towards decriminalization of politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Making it mandatory for candidates to submit an affidavit with full disclosure of criminal cases.<\/li>\n<li>Disclose details of their asset and income online \u2014 were made mandatory by the judiciary.<\/li>\n<li>Providing an option to voters to exercise None of the Above (NOTA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>7. Why political parties have failed to bring an effective mechanism:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>None of the political party is free of criminalization.<\/li>\n<li>The use of muscle power along with money power is a weapon used by all political parties to maximize electoral gains.<\/li>\n<li>Any move to ban candidates with a criminal record from contesting elections would mean political parties inflicting self-harm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Parliament\u2019s court Article: Author raising concern over rising criminalization of Politics in India and an inefficient mechanism to deal with it Important Analysis: 2. Author has talked about the issue of candidates facing criminal charges getting elected in Parliament and State Legislature. 3. Data presented by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). There are more&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-parliaments-court\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Parliament\u2019s court<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704762148},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}