In a thought-provoking lecture on democratization of electoral politics, Mr K K Venugopal said it was important to prevent criminals and history sheeters from contesting the elections. Accused persons, including sitting MPs, should see that cases against them were discharged within a year before they were allowed to contest in elections. Further, corporates should not be allowed to generously disburse funds for campaigns and that the governement should itself allocate funds for campaigns by the parties and prevent them spending inordinate amounts for each election. He indicated the examples of England and France...
It seems to me that within the constitution and the law, everyone is not judged equally. The constitution bears distinct traces of descending from vedic forbears, which is not as secular as it professes to be. Plus, even the points that have been put in of reservations and minorities and tribals acts, are not being enforced.
I raised a question: What can the law do to enable marginalised people rather than speak of preventing the ones with criminal records from contesting...?
The question finally came back to me. Do you have any ideas? So I throw this open to readers... do you have ideas?
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