Did the UPA just sanction criminalisation of politics?

Throughout the UPA regime, there has been an endless relay of corruption scams. One scam after another... And every time the scam got bigger.

What the UPA cabinet just did is easily the mother of all scams ever! And it has put our democracy in deep danger...

The UPA just passed an ordinance to protect CRIMINALS... Yes, you've read it right! The ordinance protects convicted MPs and MLAs from facing immediate disqualification.

On July 10, 2013, the Supreme Court had pronounced a historic judgment which mandated that a lawmaker (MP or MLA) would stand immediately disqualified from office if convicted by a court for crimes with jail punishment upto two years or more. Moreover, the convicted lawmaker would also be barred from contesting elections. By the latest ordinance, the UPA has effectively reversed the Supreme Court's judgment.

Well, the UPA's move doesn't seem too difficult to comprehend, especially if you consider the timing of this ordinance. As per Hindustan Times, there could be two chief beneficiaries of this new law. One is Congress Rajya Sabha MP Rashid Masood who has been convicted in a corruption scam. The other beneficiary could be Congress ally Lalu Prasad Yadav, in case he is convicted in the notorious fodder scam. The sentencing in the case of Masood and conviction in the case of Lalu is due next week.

But that's not all... Here are some shocking findings of a report posted by IBN Live. As per the report, out of 543 Lok Sabha MPs, 162 have criminal cases pending against them. In fact, 75 of them are facing serious criminal charges. In all, there are about 4,835 MPs and MLAs in India. Of these, about 1,448 are facing criminal cases. Out of these 1,448 members, 641 have declared serious criminal cases like rape, murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, robbery, extortion, etc.

Need we comment on this? The general elections are less than a year away. And the ruling party seems to be determined to go to any extent to ensure that it comes back to power, even if that means destroying the democratic fabric of the nation!

The above is from the mails I receive from Equitymaster.

As I see it, we should change the slogan of our nation from "Satyamev Jayate" to "Bhrastachar Jayate"

We should also remove Mahatma Gandhi from the Title of "Father of the Nation" and have a vote on who should be the new Father of the Nation" - Suresh Kalamadi, A Raja, Lalu Yadav, Ramalinga Raju, A.Koda etc, etc.

We could invite suggestions from the public for other names of such illustrious persons whom I may have left out.

Our slogan before and after meetings should be "Bhrastachar Zindabad" instead of "Inquilab Zindabad"

Do you still doubt that we should throw out all the exisitng parties, lock, stock and barrel and usher in the Aam Aadmi Party