Criminals candidates are banned from the election?

Why Ethics and Politicians are always in contrast…

NPNEWS24 ONLINE- The hearing in the Supreme Court (SC) is being heard in the PIL that the criminal candidates should be lifetime banned from the election. Ranjan Gogoi himself is working on this petition, and if the petition is approved, many criminal Ministers and Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) will have to stay away from election permanently.

The petition filed by Ashwin Upadhyay, argued that the politicians who are accused, they should not allow contesting elections throughout the life.

According to Section 8 of the Representation of People’s Act of 1952, MPs and MLAs who have been convicted are not eligible to contest for 10 years. After that he/she can also contest the election by staying in jail.

Upadhyay claimed in the Supreme Court, that this section is unconstitutional. He also filed a petition that candidates who have been convicted should never contest the elections.

A few days ago, the hearing for this petition was mistraced like the hearing on the cases against politicians should be done in fast-track courts. But, Gogoi again focused on the original subject of the petition on Thursday.  Soon, it will get known that whether the criminal candidates can contest election or not. So, Now it is important to see whether the demand for criminal candidates is valid or not.

Why Ethics and Politicians are always in contrast…

Most of the times political career start with a major wrong. Now the condition becomes like politics and criminalization can’t be separated. Generally, these two things go with hand in hand, as many politicians give their support for protecting criminals by misusing tier power. In return, they get money from criminals. Even these criminals get tickets also for contesting the election because politicians thought that, the fear of this criminals can be utilised at the time of the election for getting elections.