Should Tainted Ministers Allowed to Contest Elections?

No tainted politicians should not be allowed to contest in the election as it will not only lead to corruption but will also defame our country's reputation in front of the world and thus would effect our relations with foreign countries, as no country would like to conduct any kind of business with the country run by criminals.

But at the same time we should also perceive that whether the politician is really corrupt or he is merely a victim of dirty politics.

Thus a politician's past profile itself do not reflects his actual character because it may have been tampered by other dirty politicians, due to which an honest person is portrayed as a devil.

Hence based on our prevailing weak law and order we cannot restrict tainted candidates to contest in elections.

At last I think that the ultimate power lies in the hand of common man, and he should cast his vote based on his conscience and belief in the person he is voting for.

Thank you.

This is the most crucial thing to be thought of at this moment when India is surrounded by corrupt, unreliable, unworthy people who call themselves as leaders. Tainted ministers are like virus who slowly destroy the system with their venomous acts. They certainly should not be allowed to contest the elections. And it is responsibility of us to choose such person as our leader who work for country and welfare of people.

I think the problem of tainted minister needs to be nipped in the bud at the stage of elections to the parliament/state assemblies. If no one who has corruption and other criminal cases pending against him/her is allowed to contest the election, the problem will be solved both at the legislative and executive levels. However, just the allegation of crime does not make someone corrupt or criminal. Often opponents and enemies of political leaders resort to making false allegations to prevent the person from contesting election. Here the problem lies with the courts which take years to decide on such allegations. Meanwhile candidates with corruption and criminal charges continue as legislators and some cases ministers. To solve this problem there should be a special Court only for political leaders, which should decide all such cases within a year. If it is not decided in a year, complaint should automatically lapse. In the present situation someone with serious charges continues as minister, MP and takes major public policy decisions. If later charges are proved and the person is penalised, decisions taken by him/her cannot be negated. Political parties should also carry some responsibility for this. It is a surprise why it should not be possible for political parties to find sufficient number of well qualified, experienced, honest and highly motivated candidates to fight elections on their behalf. Why parties are compelled to give tickets to persons highly tainted? It could be for financial reasons. In some countries the state provides finance to political parties to fight elections so that neither the candidate or the party needs to secure finance from others in return for favours.

With strong initiative by important political leaders these problems cand be greatly minimized, if not eradicagted alltogether.

I think a big NO will satisfy the answer.

Actually its nothing but the ill fate of our nation that few donkeys i.e. corrupted politicians decide the future of the nation. The people who themselves are illiterate decides the future of lakhs and crores of literate people. This is a bitter truth.

According to me these convicted people should never be allowed to contest elections and their ticket should be cancelled for lifetime. I mean How one can expect that a person who himself is indulged in criminal activities is going to remove the crime from the nation or constituency?It is nothing but the fault lies also with the judgement of common people who select these candidates. I mean how they believe that a person who himself is a rapist, will build a rape free state!".

So that the best solution is to restrict them from participating in the elections, so that there is no chance of getting selected. Also there should be proper law to check whether a person is guilty or not to ensure that innocent people can't be proved guilty. The provision for special courts can do the work!

Thank you.

Hi friends.

In my point of view people who call themselves as leaders no tainted politicians should not be allowed to contest in the election as it will not only lead to corruption but will also defame our country's reputation in front of the world and thus would effect our relations with foreign countries, as no country would like to conduct any kind of business with the country run by criminals.

Thanks.

I think it is a matter of debate cause most of the time many politicians become a victim of bad politics but we cannot take a chance with that. If some one has been declared tainted then he must not be allowed to contest election cause these people represent our country our culture and we can't prove to the world that we give chance to criminals to further deteriorate our country's reputation. Thank you.

Hello everyone.

Well I think that the answer lies upon the definition of tainted people. If tainted means that he has been proved of his crime and has faced his punishment then, I don't think that he should be prevented from contesting elections. Because he has faced his punishment then as per law how is a good man. How ever if the tainted means that there are accusations on him and has not been proven then also we can't stop him to participate in elections because the accusations may be false.

So I don't think that we can stop him to contest in the elections. However if he is of criminal nature the the local people usually know about that. And they should prevent him to win the sheet in lok sabha.

Of course not. We don't need a tainted politician's participation in general election. It leads the country more to darkness. India is a country leading the world in business, technology, science, research. So we also have youngsters having creative mind and no corruption record.

In my view, its the duty of election commission not to accept the candidature of a person having criminal and corruption records and it should give chance to those persons whom the country needs alot.

Obviously not. If a tainted politician wins the election he will get more chance to do more illegal and hostile activities and it will badly affect our society and country. For a developing country like India, the selection of a tainted leader may lead our country towards economical, social and cultural breakdown. So the election commission must cancel the candidature of tainted politician and select the right candidate to save our country.

Thank you.

I think that tainted politicians must not at all allowed to contest elections at all. And if they are allowed to do so them all criminals must be released from the jail to contest elections. Moreover these politicians are also corrupt as well. And I think that our present government should also think on this topic as there are only some leaders in the present who don't have any criminal cases and are also active in politics. Whenever I think on this topic I really get astonished that how are they standing in the elections.

Because letting them to contest elections means letting criminals to rule on our country as I had mentioned before. Has our government had allowed them to contest elections?Or has our constitution had allowed them to do so? you only think that what will happen to our country if it would ruled by criminals. Will our country progress? No not at all! So I request you all that if you are affected by my comment and wanted the progress of your country so please be at least somewhat of aggressive towards this topic. Because as you all know progress of our country results in our progress only! Hence this my 'HUMBLE' request to you all readers please think about this topic.