Political Corruption - Inputs on Causes

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Issues related to Political Corruption

1. Political parties select candidates based on their financial strength
2. Candidates give money to the poor people in return for votes
3. Candidates ask businesses to invest in their election campaigns and promise to return favors when elected
4. Honest candidates are never able to contest elections as they cannot afford to spend that much money
5. As soon as they get elected, they start earning huge amounts through illegal means and their assets sky rocket
6. Most collection of political funds from local Entrepreneurs/SMEs happens in cash in exchange for permissions/approvals to business people
7. High level politicians take huge bribes to help private companies get Government tenders
8. Cash via bribes is used both for a politicians personal earnings, funds for them to fight next election as well as contribution to election/party funding
9. NGOs and relatives/friends companies are used to divert Government funds back to the politician
10. No political party is interested in eradicating the evil. more

Helpful Together Against Corruption Jun 07

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Umesh Kumar

1. Actual assessment of expenses/expenditure done by a candidate for election is never done and it also quite difficult to do. If Election Commission become very strict on on this assessment, many of the political corruption problems will be solved automatically. 2. The VIP status to them should be removed. more

Jun 10

Abey C

In India, in most of the cases, those whose duty is to protect the law are themselves found to be the main violators and abettors of crime. To many in the law enforcement agencies, probably one of the main attraction in joining the agency is the chance for abetting criminals, and making that an opportunity for financial gains thru bribes and other activities. Agreed that there may be many reasons for this including the social and cultural aspects, which need to be understood in detail before a correction can be attempted. Corrupt law enforcers cannot be considered in the same way as others who are engaged in corruption. Normal, government servants who are corrupt is guilty of only corruption. The law enforcers who are corrupt, becomes guilty of not only corruption but also of weakening the preventive systems against corruption, which is actually a much bigger crime than corruption itself. So the punishment should be proportionally high for them. more

Jun 06

Abey C

The law which considers that giving and taking bribe is punishable; actually helps for a collusion between the giver and the taker. So it will be in the interest of both to keep the corruption under the carpet. For the law to be effective, it should be amended to make only the taker, punishable. In that case, the bribe giver ( who in most cases is forced to give bribe because the services due to him may not be done otherwise), can alert the law enforcement agencies about the rot he had go thru. more

Jun 06

Muthu Kumar

do something for the best of tomorrow sir more

Jun 05

Aju Mukhopadhyay

Thank you Mr. Varun Arya for your considerate appreciation of my comment. You must be right for during the last few years corruption reached its acme up to that time. I mentioned all facts of India's such weaknesses and contemplated some remedies in my last book titled, "The Story of India's Progress." more

Jun 04

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