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Re: Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record

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Post by alokyadav15 »

andrewvijay wrote: post #2

I'm an Indian and can verify that. A lot of scumbags keep winning and hold onto power here usually by hook or crook. In fact even the prime Minister modi was on a mass murdering case of Gujarat 2002. He was the chief minister when the riots Happened!! That guy has still not even apologized or said sorry to the families whose people were killed. The current govt has the largest share of criminals in power. There are s…

What about 1948,1986,1992,2013... Riots , why always whining about Gujrat or you think that only in gujrat riots politicians were involved ?

Re: Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record

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Post by parennoob »

shade23 wrote: post #13
parennoob wrote: post #8

In case anyone wants to see more specific data, there is a site ( http://netafilter.in/ ) that displays all constituencies, their MPs and the number of cases filed against them on a map.

This is really nice. Any sources for the data?

The information icon at the top says the database is from http://www.myneta.info/, another decent site for Indian political data.

Myneta.info looks like it is maintained by a group called The Association for Democratic Reforms (http://adrindia.org/about-adr/who-we-are), and based on affidavits submitted by the candidates themselves (apparently a Supreme Court declaration that makes it mandatory). This means the actual number of cases could be different from those declared.

Re: Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record

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Post by abverma »

Rampant corruption has turned a lot of people into cynics in India. The phrase "Kuch nahi ho sakda India da. China dekh lo kithe pahunch gya" (Nothing will happen in India. See the development in China) gets thrown around a lot in a conversation.

It isn't a problem that affects a single party, both the ruling BJP and the Congress have the same issues. The problem with BJP being our Dear Leader being rather illiterate and surrounded by "Yes Men". The man behind the demonetization was found out to be an individual with a PhD in Yoga. And of course, there's 2002.

The Congress being the Congress mired itself with a series of scams in it's second term, and thus began what Bannon calls the "start of the right-wing revolt".

A personal anecdote about the Congress: A cousin of mine once decided to run for the Lok Sabha but quickly changed his mind because he found out the Congress guy was bribing the poor people (of which there were a lot in his village) with bottles of Johnie-Walker from the past two elections. And ofcourse, it was easy for the said Congress individual to do so because the then Chief Minister was close to Ponty Chadha, the liquor baron with a monopoly in the state of Punjab, for which the CM went to Dubai unannounced [1].

You could write a multi-volume encyclopedia on the tales of the corrupt Indian Politician.

[1]http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050712/main3.htm

Re: Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record

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Post by manojlds »

Ironically, the photo in the article is of former CM Jayalalitha who passed away last month. She has pending corruption cases against her. But when she died, the outpouring of praise from most people, many who were even against her while she was alive, has been unbelievable.

Re: Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record

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Post by andrewvijay »

alokyadav15 wrote: post #21
andrewvijay wrote: post #2

I'm an Indian and can verify that. A lot of scumbags keep winning and hold onto power here usually by hook or crook. In fact even the prime Minister modi was on a mass murdering case of Gujarat 2002. He was the chief minister when the riots Happened!! That guy has still not even apologized or said sorry to the families whose people were killed. The current govt has the largest share of criminals in power. There are s…

What about 1948,1986,1992,2013... Riots , why always whining about Gujrat or you think that only in gujrat riots politicians were involved ?

They are not the prime ministers now. The context that we are talking here is about the current govt. If the previous govts had lots of wrong doers then it doesnt mean the current govt doing the same is okay. Get your priorities straight.

Re: Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record

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Post by rameshdsouza »

alokyadav15 wrote: post #21
andrewvijay wrote: post #2

I'm an Indian and can verify that. A lot of scumbags keep winning and hold onto power here usually by hook or crook. In fact even the prime Minister modi was on a mass murdering case of Gujarat 2002. He was the chief minister when the riots Happened!! That guy has still not even apologized or said sorry to the families whose people were killed. The current govt has the largest share of criminals in power. There are s…

What about 1948,1986,1992,2013... Riots , why always whining about Gujrat or you think that only in gujrat riots politicians were involved ?

He's pushing his propaganda on HN, that's all ;)

Re: Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record

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Post by andrewvijay »

rameshdsouza wrote: post #15
andrewvijay wrote: post #2

I'm an Indian and can verify that. A lot of scumbags keep winning and hold onto power here usually by hook or crook. In fact even the prime Minister modi was on a mass murdering case of Gujarat 2002. He was the chief minister when the riots Happened!! That guy has still not even apologized or said sorry to the families whose people were killed. The current govt has the largest share of criminals in power. There are s…

Yes. Few scumbags from a family had been holding the helm in India. Fortunately, their next generation is a bit retard, hopefully they'll weed out.

Yeah the congress has to be gone for good. Also the current govt! They have the highest no of criminals in the parliament now. Its not even up for debate. They need to be weeded out.

Re: Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record

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Post by andrewvijay »

rameshdsouza wrote: post #26
alokyadav15 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about 1948,1986,1992,2013... Riots , why always whining about Gujrat or you think that only in gujrat riots politicians were involved ?

He's pushing his propaganda on HN, that's all ;)

Propaganda? What propaganda do you see here exactly? Your relentless support to the govt when the topic is about the criminals in the govt is really disgusting dude! I dont know if you just created a profile just to comment here. Wont be surprised!

Re: Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record

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Post by alokyadav15 »

andrewvijay wrote: post #25
alokyadav15 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about 1948,1986,1992,2013... Riots , why always whining about Gujrat or you think that only in gujrat riots politicians were involved ?

They are not the prime ministers now. The context that we are talking here is about the current govt. If the previous govts had lots of wrong doers then it doesnt mean the current govt doing the same is okay. Get your priorities straight.

> If the previous govts had lots of wrong doers then it doesnt mean the current govt doing the same is okay .

Supreme court of India gave clean chit to Modi [0]. second here context is Indian Politicians not current Indian govt.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Narendra-Modi-gets-...

Re: Why many Indian politicians have a criminal record

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Post by [deleted] »

alokyadav15 wrote: post #21
andrewvijay wrote: post #2

I'm an Indian and can verify that. A lot of scumbags keep winning and hold onto power here usually by hook or crook. In fact even the prime Minister modi was on a mass murdering case of Gujarat 2002. He was the chief minister when the riots Happened!! That guy has still not even apologized or said sorry to the families whose people were killed. The current govt has the largest share of criminals in power. There are s…

What about 1948,1986,1992,2013... Riots , why always whining about Gujrat or you think that only in gujrat riots politicians were involved ?

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