Voters, not Political Parties, are Responsible for the Criminalization of Politics

According to me voters are responsible for criminalization of politics because if they know about candidates having criminal records why they giving vote to them they have also NOTA option is there they go for NOTA and may be reelection was there because of the NOTA percentage. Conclusion is that voters may be responsible for that may not be.

Hello everyone,

I think that both are equally responsible for today's India's condition. Now a days we see that people are becoming careless about the elections, many times they do not vote or give vote to anyone without seeing that person's background. This increases criminalization in politics.

That's why I think that people should be aware of whom they are voting.

On the other hand political parties are also responsible for this thing. That we cannot blame only any one of them.

Voters are responsible, because they have power to choose the leader. But all voter won't be knowing qualities of the contestant they will know them only what media show. It is also the responsibility of party to give ticket to worthy contestant.

Hey, no I don't think so, voters have their own choice to choose their leader. And if no one among the candidates are eligible to become a good leader still voter has to vote so he may vote random person so complete his responsibility but which is totally wrong. Today concept NOTA is present so that we can tell leaders that we don't want you.

Worst thing is voter is like God for all politicians at the time of election but after election they forget their God so even if voter is doing his job properly some political parties are creating mess so I request them to please if you have so much capability of becoming leader then do change our system and make our country corruption free.

Thank you!

The methodology of election at present is favoring criminals to come to power. Unless
we seriously think of a radical electoral reform our democracy is in jeopardy and it is a well known open fact. Before the election they act like enemies,but after the election they fool the citizens and go together. Coalition trick. I read somewhere that above 38% of the contested candidates were crorepatis and most with criminal cases. Once they are in power they say parliament is supreme. We do whatever we wish. Whom to blame?.

Friends, my basic thought is.

Yes voters do play important role in political system but they do not have right to decide about who will contest the elections.

& the other thing is like other governmental professions politics does not asks about educational qualification it only asks about age & nationality. So those who are fulfilling these 2 "qualifications" are allowed to control our country.

And we all are aware about many other manipulations in our administrative set up.

So my stand is, more than voters other factors like knowing some party members/head etc influences the politics more.

I want to share two points.

1. Most of the population of India are lived in village. Village voters follow their cast system. The vote to candidate who belongs to their cast without knowing about whether that person will be capable of fulfilling their needs.

2. We should modify some laws against politician to conduct election. Like there should not be any criminal case on them. And that action is already takes place.

Our 33% population is below poverty line, and we all know how the votes are bought by politician only to win the elections, we can not say that all politicians are doing the same but most of them doing. One most important thing that people are not having any option to vote to all parties of same kind, if they would have given any alternative to experiment other parties at central level then there may be completely different turnout. Because people are more aware now.

Acc.to my point of view regarding the issue, voters to a maximum extent are responsible for the criminalization of politics. IN a country consisting of approximately 1.27 billion population only 74% are literate, which means a quarter is still under the umbrella of illiteracy that does not have any knowledge about the meaning of democracy neither do they have any idea of its basic functioning, what is the meaning of MP, MLA RAJYA SABHA, LOK SABHA. What is the basic mechanism of these. How do these work. Though India is a young nation consisting maximum of population aged below 60 still acc to survey it has been found that it consists of 37%of illiterate adults of the world! A huge number, isn't it?

So how can one expect that these people will vote and elect a govt which is upto the mark and works for the amelioration of the nation.

These illiterate voters are more likely to spoil the votes and depressing the total turnout. It is also known that this group is often mislead, intimidated into voting for the crooks and thugs, these are more likely to sell their votes and are kept in the false hope.

Adding to the above point, the country's political parties are more likely to field candidates who face criminal allegations in the districts where illiteracy rates are higher for vote banks!

I was flummoxed to know that the 15th lok sabha consists of some MP's with criminal records. This is such a big shame for the nation that the people who are considered to be the people's representative are themselves corrupt. And to add to the shame is is just because of us who have not elected them and made them our representatives.

In my viewpoint there should be some predescribed criteria for the ones who are contesting elections and for the ones who are eligible to vote which should have at least the basic understanding of what the democracy is all about in the country where the basic system is flawed though making it the world's largest democratic country.

Hence, the responsibility to choose wisely rests on our shoulders to ensure to make the country a better place.

Both voters and parties are responsible for criminalization of politics. Voters are not voting to a candidate rather they vote to a political party by trusting it. And political party presidents and seniors make cash out of it and give tickets to the candidates of their interest. This wheel is creating criminals in politics in my view.