New Delhi: An advocate and social activist has moved the Supreme Court on Thursday for a direction to debar the convicted persons from electoral politics for life, which he said is necessary to curb the corruption and criminalisation, the greatest menace to our democracy and development.
The petitioner Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay pointed out that 40 politicians, involved in serious heinous crimes like loot, extortion, murder, rape etc were the Members of the 11th Lok Sabha and 700 politicians of similar background were in the State legislatures.
He said even the political parties out of the glamour of political power and consequent benefits do not hesitate in giving tickets to the criminals and do not object to their use in winning the elections.
Thus, criminalization of the politics needs to be checked on top priority. Apart from terrorism and naxalism, the most serious problem, our country facing is extensive corruption and criminalization of the politics. At times, the concern has been expressed against this obnoxious cancerous growth proving lethal to electoral politics.
