Just as Right to Information Act, which had to be enacted because of zealous activist Mr Anna Hazare, there is need for keeping criminals out of politics. Reliance of all the political parties on criminals to threaten people into voting for them has set the rot and then the helpers have become the bosses themseves. Iy is impossible to prove anything against a criminal once he becomes a law maker. Therefore, if any person has a a police complaint or criminal or even a civil case that involves even moral turpitude, filed a year before election should be debarred from contesting. Cases filed wihtin a year of the election can be through political vendetta. In such cases the accused, revealing his intention of contesting the election should request for day to day hearing of the case to decide if a priam facie case exists. This will speed up the investigative and judicial processes and also keep the criminals our of politics. It is quite silly to allow people to contest elections and come into places of power so that they may influence the course of justice. Their right to contest elections should be suspended till their name is clear or they pay their due to the socieity for their crimes. A clerk or even a peon in any sevice is suspended if there is an inquiry against him or her, but we are so mindful of the democratic rights of accused persons, even for bombblasts and murders, that we allow people accused of these to contest elections.
