{"id":5622,"date":"2012-01-06T11:25:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T05:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2012-01-06T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T05:55:29","slug":"why-indian-political-parties-love-inducting-mafiososmurderers-and-rapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/2012\/01\/06\/why-indian-political-parties-love-inducting-mafiososmurderers-and-rapists\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Indian Political Parties Love Inducting Mafiosos,Murderers and Rapists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Political Parties are full of people with a criminal past with some of them being history sheeters fighting numerous case of grievous crimes like murder,rape etc.Numerous reports have come out showing that a large percentage of India&#8217;s members of parliament are people with a criminal past and present.Despite the Anna Hazare led <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/2011\/04\/05\/jan-lokpal-bill-summary-and-guide-to-indias-civil-society-anti-corruption-bill-deserves-our-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lokpal\u00a0<\/a>agitation against corruption and general angst against the political classes,nothing has changed.One of India&#8217;s 2 national parties the BJP has fallen into controversy for inducting a politician caught in a massive health scandal and accused of being complicit in killing of 2 senior health bureaucrats.But this is not specific to a single political party but runs across party lines.<\/p>\n<p>If you do a rational and factural analysis why political parties in India love thse mafiosos and gangsters you can see that<\/p>\n<p>1) These gangsters win elections using their muscle and money power which is the most important thing in winning power of political parties.Who cares if you win by hook or crook<\/p>\n<p>2) The first past the post system means that a person might win with less than 20% of the votes.This means that gangsters can win a small percentage through intimidation<\/p>\n<p>3) In India, election wins are still won by caste and ethnic identities so criminals can win by winning the support of their caste<\/p>\n<p>4) Gangsters can intimidate good candidates from running away using violence<\/p>\n<p>With no pressure to change ,political parties continue to brazenly induct criminal and history sheeters.This will unlikely change till the Indian electorate rejects them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But this is not specific to a single political party but runs across party lines.<\/p>\n<p>If you do a rational and factural analysis why political parties in India love thse mafiosos and gangsters you can see that<\/p>\n<p>1) These gangsters win elections using their muscle and money power which is the most important thing in winning power of political parties.Who cares if you win by hook or crook<\/p>\n<p>2) The first past the post system means that a person might win with less than 20% of the votes.This means that gangsters can win a small percentage through intimidation<\/p>\n<p>3) In India, election wins are still won by caste and ethnic identities so criminals can win by winning the support of their caste<\/p>\n<p>4) Gangsters can intimidate good candidates from running away using violence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian-capital-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}