Are the politicians correct, or is this just an attempt to ensure that `tainted' candidates are not debarred?

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A dreadful disease called "selective consensus"

Wed Jul 10 16:55:32 2002
Name:Sreedharan Rajesh
Email:Srajesh@yahoo.com
Your Views:No they are not. Period.

Wed Jul 10 16:58:00 2002
Name:rajesh
Email:rajesh_k_sharma@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Trust the politicians to talk both ways!! They talk of stopping the criminalisation of politics, and then reject the first move towards the goal. It time we, the public, did something and told them in no clear terms that this won't continue.

Wed Jul 10 17:06:51 2002
Name:Ashiq
Email:Ashiqk@rediffmail.com
Your Views:I had no doubt about our honourable ministers intention refusal to go come clean. They all are corrupt. They unanimously agreed ( please note that only few topics they agreed unanimously, the previous one was their salary hike). These corrupt people have brought shame to a nation. The day they saw their life in danger ( on Dec 13), they started calling that an attack on nation. Bloody minister, even a single innocent death is attack on nation. You owe your life for every single countryman. And yet you refuse to declare your assets and criminal records. Look at your job requirement of a minister: no qualifications needed, criminal background is great achievement and corruption is biggest credit. Now look at a peon's job requirement: must be educated, before job a criminal verification will be done by police. Why two laws in this country, one for politician and one for others? This is highly unethical. Politician are opportunists, corrupt, and the biggest terrorists in India.

Wed Jul 10 17:09:10 2002
Name:abhinav
Email:luv__13@hotmail.com
Your Views:We have seen it in the past too that politicians have always moulded law in their favour.if I happen to make some law for my self then it obviously will be in my favour. Then how can we even think that we should let the house members go ahead with this plan. When it comes to being their being elected by us then the major question that arises is that it is the poor and the illiterate people who have chosen these people by hook or by crook.so the answer of all that I am trying to convey lies in my last statement.

Wed Jul 10 17:12:25 2002
Name:Rajnish Saxena
Email:rajnishsaxena@hotmail.com
Your Views:In our country, people whosoever, always looking for some kind of excuse so that they can make themselves safe. Now when the hon'ble Supreme Court has rightly issued orders pertaining to disclose any information of the candidates in whose hands the future of our lies. What is wrong it?? If Government of India, recruits a peon, they can ask all the information for peon whose job profile is to carry the files. But it is very ironical, that visionaries of this country are not supposed to file any information. If these politician are really love their country, they should appreciate the directions rather than saying the job of the parliament is to make law for this purpose. Please make these politician understand that if you people do not listen the voice of masses, one day sooner or later, they will have to face the music of their deeds. Please make them clear that if the country is rich, every body is rich rather than if the prime minister is rich then it is not necessary that everybody is rich. These politician trying their best to get something in the cabinet so that they can make their and their dependents life comfortable and not bothered for the country people who are poor and becoming poorer day by day. If media can play a positive role by keeping their deeds open to the public, it will be great task for the country but unfortunately, media also sees their own benefits in terms of getting more coverage, ads etc. Hopefully, may god bless my country with good politician with excellent thinking for excellent environment for each and every person living in this country. Law should be one for all country people irrespective of caste, religion, etc. rather we should remove the words like caste, religion from our names as it does not give us any benefits. All information sought anywhere by any institution should remove the columns so that everybody should be known by their work not by their caste, religion, etc. Rajnish, a proud Indian

Wed Jul 10 17:14:48 2002
Name:Kishore
Email:ginju@vsnl.com
Your Views:Give a break to the politicians ! They have to cope up with a complex democracy like India. The elction commission and the supreme court should confine themselves to their job and not act as do gooders to this country.

Wed Jul 10 17:16:50 2002
Name:rohit khandelwal
Email:rohit_k3011@yahoo.co.in
Your Views:No the politicians are not correct, it is bad luck for our country that the law makers are the law breakers , instead they must have welcomed and implemented the directive of supreme court. I feel the time has come to give our country clean and good politicians who work for the country without any criminal background. It is bad luck, but still one must always wait for the best, and I feel the best is yet to come.

Wed Jul 10 17:19:36 2002
Name:Mangesh
Email:mangeshsurve@rediffmail.com
Your Views:We have a history of "King's giving utmost priority to justice". I would advocate a reform in Law and order section, wherein honest judgment should be made faster using latest technology. According to me criminalisation of politics is the biggest of all the sins, because it affects the masses. Media should help the country by playing a vital role of highlighting the issue.

Wed Jul 10 17:20:04 2002
Name:Harish
Email:sharish12@rediff.com
Your Views:This very clearly explains that "all" politicians are corrupt and dont have the spine to face the law. highly demeaning to say that our great country are being ruled by these selfish idiots. the irony is that all politicians are now together for this issue. indian politicians are suffering from a dreadful disease called "selective consensus"

Wed Jul 10 17:20:13 2002
Name:ADV.MICHAEL ANTHONY
Email:miccosmic@rediffmail.com
Your Views:it is very strange that the govt., on the one hand is trying to boost up its image by implementing POTO in order to eliminate the terrorism and terrorist, and on the other hand it's waging a war against the supreme court and the election commission, directive of eliminating the criminal in the politician and hence willing to provide a clean and corruptless govt. Whereas it clearly shows that these politician are making law not for them but for the people and it is an opportunistic move of all the politician, in order to remain in the power or capture the power through muscle and money power. I would like to say that these politician should be booked under the POTO, because they attempt to disintegrate the sovereignty and democracy of our nation and further showed contempt for the directive of the supreme court. Those in this govt., and those in opposition should resigned from their respective posts, because they have no morals. Ram Jethmalani was kicked out of the law ministry, because he questioned the power and the legality of the supreme court in some matters. in this case the politician should come forward to accept the verdict of the supreme court and cooperate.

Wed Jul 10 17:22:23 2002
Name:LS
Email:lathats@hotmail.com
Your Views:This was the only reaction expected out of our Politicians after the Election Commission's move. All the Parties join hands on issues concerning their perks, benefits and in cases like this. We have so far not heard a single case where they have stood united for the nation's cause. But the EC should not stop at this and should be bold in implementing measures to curb criminalisation of Politics.

Wed Jul 10 17:22:27 2002
Name:Neeraj Modi
Email:npmodi_999@sify.com
Your Views:Politicians in India are never committed to their country. They have never felt themselves responsible for any of their acts. The Election Commission has taken a right step in the right direction. The President must intervene and must not allow the criminalisation of politics officially i.e. by passing a bill in the Parliament. The President must resign and create a law & order crisis in the country if forced upon by the cabinet to sign the bill.

Wed Jul 10 17:26:16 2002
Name:Vijay Shrivastava
Email:vijay.shrivastava@geps.ge.com
Your Views:This just an attempt to ensure that `tainted' candidates are not debarred. It is like "chor chor mausare bhai" ( One thief is maternal brother to other thief). There should be some way to enforce the court orders.

Wed Jul 10 17:30:29 2002
Name:Mukul Golash
Email:mgolash@hotmail.com
Your Views:Yes, they are superior than a law and are supposed to be as per our constitution. And I also do not believe that there is a fault in the constitution. It has been aimed to provide superior powers to the representatives of people. The problem lies with the people who elect them. If people do not elect the people with tainted records or those who failed to disclose, everybody will learn a lesson. Tainted candidates should not be debarred as there may be false cases against them as possible in politics, but public should decide their innocence in those cases, by electing or not electing them.

Wed Jul 10 17:33:14 2002
Name:Manoj Sharma
Email:burlymacho@yahoo.com
Your Views:This is something ridiculous - but certainly befitting our politicians.

Wed Jul 10 17:33:55 2002
Name:Pankaj
Email:psolanki@rolta.com
Your Views:Highly disgusting and shameless behaviour by these so called "Democratic elected" mobs. They unite only when it's affecting their own existance or when question of increase in their pay & perks are concerned. They are least bothered about innumerable problems suffered by citizens, those who elect them. Less said is better. I am really sad. Where we are heading? No light at the end of tunnel.

Wed Jul 10 17:35:37 2002
Name:Anubhav
Email:anubhavmaheshwar@rediffmail.com
Your Views:When india got independence in 1947, in fact it was not a independence it was transfer of power of country from one ruler to another. These political parties have only one agenda in there mind " How they can rule their area". If the resolution of EC gets implemented the politicians will become powerless in front of administrative officers. They will not be obliged by govt. departments. More over they will become more answerable to public. It's very disheartening that whole parliament session goes in vain just for a reason or another. Some useful bills are waiting for approval since many years. But the so called upcoming bill has got its draft with in one week. This will be passed by parliament with in one or two days. So my view is there should not be any confusion that law makers can not be above law. They have to honour the law. We as Indians have to learn the facts of these political parties. Otherwise there is no difference between a slave & us. How long do we have to obey the leaders whom we have selected to work for us?

Wed Jul 10 17:36:25 2002
Name:Swapan Maiti
Email:swapan@alumnux.com
Your Views:The famous saying that "physicians ,heal thyself" also hold good for the lawmakers. Every citizen of the country has the right to live in a level playing environment. It's a shame on our so called democratic system that the very products of our democratic system have shamefully connived to destroy the system.

Wed Jul 10 17:37:12 2002
Name:Rao P. Ganta
Email:rganta@netscape.net
Your Views:All of them have something to hide. So they close ranks and don't let any one even the SC to do anything that is going to harm their interests. The country comes last in the scheme of things. What else can you attribute to the swift unity of all parties on this?

Wed Jul 10 17:37:19 2002
Name:kiran
Email:kiranp747@hotmail.com
Your Views:It shows that nobody is good in politics, whether it is BJP or Congress. When they are in trouble they get united and at other times they just bicker at each other, just to spend time and tax payer's money.

Wed Jul 10 17:46:49 2002
Name:arvind garg
Email:arvind_garg@rediffmail.com
Your Views:well this is the decision of supreme court asking all politicians to disclose antecedents ,decision is right as public has right to know what has been done by govt, in their favour and how much they are taking out of it. Laws are made by candidates selected by public and is for welfare of public. Then why do they fear it?

Wed Jul 10 17:48:03 2002
Name:Indian
Email:kjhkjhj@iuiu.com
Your Views:HI, I certainly believe the politicians are ganging up against the citizens of India. It's not like they weren't earlier, but this time they are putting up an open show in saying that all that we are worried about is ourselves and not the country. The Supreme Court ruling is landmark judgment. This should have been done even in 1947 when the electoral democracy began. But I can sympathise and empathise with our past leaders in not anticipating this kind of blatant criminalisation of Indian politics thus making a total mockery of the nation and its masses. Honestly, the masses are really dumb to vote for public figures who are criminal and corrupt. The supreme court judgment would give the dumb people a last chance in saying- " look this is the guy u could be voting for, now make your choice". After this if the voter still does the same mistake then I don't think Indian deserves any better. Probably the British were right in saying that the Indians do not understand governance. Regards Indian

Wed Jul 10 17:51:23 2002
Name:Srikanth
Email:sri_kantha@hotmail.com
Your Views:Hi, What better can Indians expect from politicians? In one go, major political parties have cocked a snook at the supreme court's ruling. It is shameful that these very political parties play to the gallery to gain political mileage and forget the very basic tenets of legislation and judiciary enshrined in our constitution. The supreme court should take up the matter now more vigorously and pass a unanimous judgment withholding election of criminals with immediate effect. Every Indian (minus the netas, of course) should wholeheartedly support the supreme court's ruling and oppose criminalisation of politics, which has assumed gargantuan proportions of late. The earlier this is done, the better for the sake of the nation.

Wed Jul 10 17:52:01 2002
Name:Arun Duggal
Email:amduggal@id.eth.net
Your Views:Corruption and criminalisation at all levels in Political and bureaucracy is amongst most serious issues affecting people and nation. People expected to lead us and set an example on common masses are corrupt and larger interests of nation and people take a back seat. Its them, money, party, friends....and interests of us as the people and nation are last in their decision making. Imagine, they are not willing to discipline their ranks or workers, as they themselves are even bigger cheats or crooks. Even judiciary's directive doesn't shame them and fearlessly they try to defeat desired goal by wrong utilization of vested powers. All these years because of such demoralising leadership, people have lost faith in system. Such leaders have resulted in inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy & poor administration. Such leadership in turn is eroding national morality, our value system, ethics, work culture, pride in nation, devotion & dedication for national cause...... Not only should we should put total end to corruption, criminalisation in such high offices, we should have educated, dedicated and competent people. Even judiciary should play more vocal & vigilant role to do due justice to the people and the nation.

Wed Jul 10 17:52:47 2002
Name:A.V.RAMANI
Email:ramaniav@rediffmail.com
Your Views:If Law makers are not above Law, they have to abide by the law(through self practice)and make Law. So, everybody don't want to become mahatma (refer the sugar story of mahatma) practice before preaching. There is no question about it- enforce them as mahatma through law.

Wed Jul 10 17:58:24 2002
Name:Srivatsa
Email:ssv_2000@yahoo.com
Your Views:This is just like anything else that politicians do. TRY TO AVOID THE REAL ISSUE. Everything they do never gets passed, but if it is anything which is 'against' them, they get an UNANIMOUS approval to reject it. Sick and tired of politicians. I just hope someone of the calibre of Abe comes to India to make India as good as it deserves to be.

Wed Jul 10 18:06:55 2002
Name:paigaonkar
Email:paigaonkar@hotmail.com
Your Views:The lawmakers think they are above law. This is wrong. To save their skin all parties -which usually fight each other like dogs and cats - have come together and threatening the very foundation of democracy. We should not allow them to go scot free. We must protest and back Election commission to the hilt. to hell with murderers, blackmarketeers and lawbreakers in the garb of lawmakers

Wed Jul 10 18:08:13 2002
Name:aj
Email:@.
Your Views:Together they cheat, together they loot... Is this democracy? Background checks are done for almost everything- from applying a job to applying for a bank loan. Then why is the 'representatives' so reluctant to comply to this basic security check? Like an employee is fired when found not suitable for the job for which he is paid for, the legislators should be fired in a similar way. People should be able to recall their legislators at any time.

Wed Jul 10 18:09:18 2002
Name:Santosh
Email:pisharody.santosh@mahindra.com
Your Views:It is another concerted attempt by politicians to divert or dilute the real issue and put it the vicious cobweb of legislation where there will be so much trivia and lacunae that first loopholes will come up and end up legitimising criminalisation of politics. Not only politicians, but bureacrats,technocrats and people in civic life should not be immune from probity in public life. We have to set standards somewhere and sacrifice probably for the sake of a longer and lasting solution.If most of the antecedants of politicians are disclosed,then we will end up with a treasure a proportion of our GDP. Moreover such a proposal should not be put up for acceptance, but should be the foremost criteria for serving in public life. If there are justifying reasons not to disclose one's antecedents, then why have an annual excercise of filing tax returns for law abiding citizens.The similar explanation should be extended to citizens also. We should have appropiate stick for right sort of height measurement. By rejecting the proposal the politicians have once again demonstrated that they are neither concerned nor interested about transparency in public service.

Wed Jul 10 18:10:34 2002
Name:priyankush p jain
Email:priyankushj@rediffmail.com
Your Views:no this is a useless remark by the MPs. Nobody is above law and what about a judgment of S.Court, it has some standard. If politicians reject this, then so called relief to the common man of this country i.e. a court judgment (a S.C. one) will be in a catastrophic danger. Such acts are the beget of corrupting a system very effective way and should be discouraged like anything.

Wed Jul 10 18:11:44 2002
Name:Pradeep
Email:mail2pradeep@rediffmail.com
Your Views:I feel that the politicians are just opposing the move because of the fear of the missile coming back at them. If they had the nations interest foremost in mind, they are bound to welcome this.

Wed Jul 10 18:12:43 2002
Name:Manoj
Email:manojs9@rediff.com
Your Views:Politicians should not be allowed to make laws governing them. I think it would not be good for the Indian Democracy where politicians refuse to behave responsibly. The verdict is passed by SC, the highest institution of law protection and implemented by EC, so politicians and political parties need to give due respect to it. With so much criminalization around, I think political parties should accept the verdict as soon as possible, and may add safeguards if they think it can be misused. Non acceptance of verdict would lead to disenchantment among public, who already view politicians as most corrupt. I think same should extended to politician's salaries and facilities they get. They need to be reviewed by non political committee and their recommendations should be followed.

Wed Jul 10 18:13:38 2002
Name:D S Rao
Email:dsraods@indiatimes.com
Your Views:I'm a fool if I was expecting something else from the all party meeting. This shows how much respect these politicians have for the rule of law and towards the sentiments of the people of this great(can we any more claim ?..) country. Even a peon in a government department is supposed to declare his/her assets annually and can be sacked on disciplinary grounds for not disclosing the same. Their unwillingness to disclose assets only strengthens the common belief among the masses that politicians make lot of money. This is what our leaders are made of. P - Power hungry O - Out of tune L - Liar I - Ignorant T - Traitor I - Irresponsible C - Corrupt I - Impotent A N - Anti National We heard about kings like Dhritratra, Kansa and others in our legends and we are (un)lucky enough to see those kings now. May god help this country.

Wed Jul 10 18:14:59 2002
Name:priyaranjan tiwari
Email:priyaranjan_t@indiatimes.com
Your Views:The politicians' collective attempt to block the historical directive of Supreme Court has proved beyond doubt the long standing perception of the countrymen that the politicians are the most corrupt and sinister section of the society today. These vile men shout against each other in the august house of parliament alleging corruption, and when some concrete and full proof measures are being introduced by the Election Commission under the direction of the highest court to bring the crying need of probity and transparency in public life, there is a united and desperate attempt made by the politicians cutting across political lines to effectively thwart and block any such measure. I appeal to all the people of this country, to the people who love our motherland, to save and protect our mother from the diabolical clutches of these traitors. Come let us join together and effectively block the evil designs of these asoors and save the honour of our mother. Let us ensure that the Election Commission's measures aimed at bringing probity in public life is implemented in toto and email or Internet is one of the best mediums to do this.

Wed Jul 10 18:21:00 2002
Name:Rakesh Pathak
Email:rakeshp@rediffmail.com
Your Views:This just proves the point that no poilticians can be nailed for whatever he does unless he/she is sitting in the opposition and is being victimised by the ruling party ie. the person of the same species called politician.This act has brought down the status of the politicians to a new depth. This is a bold decision put forward to the people of India to prove that there can be no resurrection of Indian political system and any effort to clean the system will be meet the same fate. In the garb of protecting the truthful political candidate (An exceptionally good and creative imagination ,in the present context) whatthese people have ensured is positions to corrupt people. It really requires a revolution to purify the political system and it cannot be done with the likes of Vajpayee , Advani or Sonia Gandhi. We have seen the stands taken by these people in the Gujarat's case . These people have redefined religion, honesty ,ethics and humanity with their antonyms. So it's high time for us Indians to give a thought before selecting a candidate for our own governance.

Wed Jul 10 18:21:14 2002
Name:Pravin Kulkarni
Email:pravin_kul@yahoo.com
Your Views:Hello all Present move by all political parties is a vulgar plan to continue fielding criminals in election and to continue amassing wealth without being answerable to anybody. They are not above law and cannot keep voters in dark about candidates' assets and his police records. For citizens this is a helpless situation of "guards eating the crop."

Wed Jul 10 18:23:56 2002
Name:nagori r.m.
Email:hindmag@pn3.vsnl.net.in
Your Views:Politicians are not justified. For they just want to enter parliament any who and they feel no body should question them.

Wed Jul 10 18:24:38 2002
Name:Dipak Marwah
Email:dipakmarwah@yahoo.com
Your Views:I was appalled by even some intelligent politicians like Arun Jaitley trying to defend the party move(I have in fact lost respect I had for the man). The SC directive should be followed in toto. We don't want criminals or people with dubious character as our representatives, and I as a citizen have the right to know who my representative is before I vote for him. If 50% of the current politicians get disbarred, it can only help! I am not joking, I am furious that we are even debating this. If even 1 million people cannot contest, what's the harm? There are millions of others. This gives us a chance to clean the slate a little bit. Political parties, for the sake of India and its future, should accept this and not think pettily- they'll be doing India proud and this could be their single largest achievement. Surely they are not defending criminalisation, are they? And why should elected representatives declare their income only to the Speaker? When they stand for elections, they should be ready to go public about their activities and income. And don't worry, Mr. Jaitley, there will be 'no anarchy'- even if it is, the system can only be better than what it is now.

Wed Jul 10 18:28:21 2002
Name:sp singh
Email:singhsp1@sify.com
Your Views:What a pathetic situation, these politician has ruined our country and in this country democracy will not work, because all these representative does not want to clean the situation. We need a man now like T.N.Sheshan who can curb all these means of criminalisation. Why not to accept the directive of Supreme court, even supreme court think there is crminalisation of politics and it has directed the EC to go through. Now what these politician want to tell the by bringing the new legislation. Just they want to escape all these things. I feel very shame and hate all these politician and parties. Only God can save this country.

Wed Jul 10 18:30:14 2002
Name:Vijay
Email:capricorn@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Yes it is okay for tainted candidates to stand in the election. It should be a decision to be taken by the common man when electing them.

Wed Jul 10 18:30:36 2002
Name:Sudhir Gokhale
Email:sudhir_gokhale@yahoo.com
Your Views:Indian politics has been a victim of lust and greed of the so called Indian politicians. This needs to be stopped. There should be a stringent law that holds not only yhe person but the party that he represents responsible for any acts of crime that he commits. These people are more than mere criminals, they are the people who lead the society to criminalisation. The unanimous rejection shows how low these people have gone who call themselves leaders of the society and it is irrespective of their party affiliations. Another aspect of filing false cases against innocent persons needs to be addressed too. If a case is found to be filed out of political vendetta and the charges are not proved then it should fine or punish the petitioner. Also the media needs to publicise the earlier convictions of a contestant in an election. If any person has been convicted by any court then he should never be allowed to contest any election in his entire life. If a politician is found guilty in any case he should be hanged to death for even a minor offence as he is supposed to lead by example.

Wed Jul 10 18:39:04 2002
Name:Alpesh Patel
Email:alpupatel@rediffmail.com
Your Views:This is rediculous to know all party is equal on criminalization of politics. Even so called BJP is also include in it. And what about left? Do they think that this is more serious then secularism or they are also with all this.

Wed Jul 10 18:42:03 2002
Name:Niranjana Murthy
Email:tgniranjan@hotmail.com
Your Views:NOBODY, I repeat NOBODY is above the law. When there is something which is going against the policitians, we suddenly find rare unity among our political parties. Bills like increasing the perks of MLAs, MPs will be passed without any OPPOSITION from the opposition parties who otherwise think they are there to oppose anything the ruling party does. This is atypical case of that. They say supreme court is the ultimate constitional body when it suits them, if not they say parliament is the law making body. Running to the well of the house, throwing paper weight at each other, not letting the session do its normal business is what they do if they don't like something the ruling party does. Well, I don't say ruling party is good. They had done all these when they were in opposition. They don't have any respect left for the parliament. They go out to news channels' studios to give their opinions after having blocked the proceedings in the house. If our freedom fighters are still around, they will repent for the freedom fight they did. They struggled so much to get the freedom and these politicians are now FREE to loot the country. GOD SAVE MY INDIA.

Wed Jul 10 18:45:16 2002
Name:manu gupta
Email:rajee@yahoo.com
Your Views:The politicians done the right thing otherwise one or two will be left at the politics. The educated and pure leaders are always pushed back by corrupt politics n corrupt leaders, thats why no party had supported T.N.Seshan for Presidency Election. The game is all about hook n crook so hookers n crookers cant be barred.

Wed Jul 10 18:46:53 2002
Name:Sushil Kumar
Email:Sushil.kumar@priceline.com
Your Views:I think, politiicans are trying to keep options open for entry of bad guys into politics. In doing so, they are serving their interests and the nation is badly affected due to this. We should implement Supreme courts decision.

Wed Jul 10 18:48:21 2002
Name:somasekhar
Email:eciksr@rediff.com
Your Views:this is very bad...these politicians should not behave like this.... when it comes to ayodhya which they doesn't want to find a solution by themselves they rely on court ruling... but when it comes to them these politicians doesn't want to do that.... just becuase they can make laws the parliament should not act like this.... they should agree to this....and by the way what's wrong in this.... these guys respect supreme court...isn't it....

Wed Jul 10 18:51:10 2002
Name:K.v.s.mani
Email:mani_kvs@vsnl.com
Your Views:This is nothing but protection to corrupt politicians.If they are taking money for elections they can do so passing another law and collect officially and this should be allowed.But they should be made accountable for everything they do just as they ask private sector ceo's to do.

Wed Jul 10 18:51:32 2002
Name:kabeer
Email:cap2004@yahoo.com
Your Views:No, All are "chors". Don't take them seriously. All old Donkeys are out there. Kabeer

Wed Jul 10 18:53:40 2002
Name:Dr. U.K.Sharma
Email:druksharma@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Most certainly the politicians are NOT correct, and it is only an ill-disguised attempt to protect/perpetuate criminalisation of politics. It is positively shameful that the only thing that unites all politicians in Parliament is the opportunity to fleece the people (witness the unanimity with which hike in MP's fees was approved in the past, barring one dissentor) and the opportunity to cheat and hoodwink people, witness the unanimous and extreme reluctance to be transparent and accountable to the voter. They forget that you cannot fool ALL the people ALL the time; we are laughing at their disgusting shenanigans, but the writing is on the wall. Sooner or later people will be fed up enough to take hard decisions themsleves. Then woe betide the corrupt and dishonest. These so-called leaders of people should be setting examples of compliance and honouring the Highest Court's directives, instead they are trying to frame new laws to wriggle out. SHAME SHAME How will the ordinary citizen ever be law-abiding when this is the sordid state of affairs in the country ? Is the future President of India listening?

Wed Jul 10 18:53:54 2002
Name:Ravi
Email:rar_96@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Yes, I am sure that the politicians are trying to protect themselves. Further, if this directive is implemented, we can probably see over 70% of them disqualified. Not many have the knack of ruling from prisons like Lallu Prasad Yadav, after all!

Wed Jul 10 18:53:57 2002
Name:Ravi
Email:rar_96@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Yes, I am sure that the politicians are trying to protect themselves. Further, if this directive is implemented, we can probably see over 70% of them disqualified. Not many have the knack of ruling from prisons like Lallu Prasad Yadav, afterall!

Wed Jul 10 18:56:29 2002
Name:Ravi Anantharam
Email:rar_96@rediffmail.com
Your Views:The Supreme Court should take the opinion of the people of India - in a poll and decide about this issue. Else, it will be like a situation where you are asking a criminal if he should be tried in court and jailed!

Wed Jul 10 18:57:31 2002
Name:A K Jash
Email:asitjash@rediffmail.com
Your Views:This is nothing new. They have created the present system. At present most of the politicians are tainted and it will be difficult for them to enjoy all the privilage if Sc's directive is implimented.

Wed Jul 10 19:00:23 2002
Name:jagan mohan
Email:jagan19@indya.com
Your Views:This shows to us the standards of our politicians they are all crook's of the first kind as they have the power to stop any body from stoping them. the people should start a agitation to bring them to book

Wed Jul 10 19:00:24 2002
Name:raj
Email:smar_123@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Hi Friends, This is all farce. All politicians are corrupt. So corrucpt that they even take cut on the purchase of Coffins. They are all pals. They only have to change the alliance to become touchable or untouchable - example is Jayalalitha. U are shouted down as corrupt and the Parliament comes to standstill because of the man is in the power. Then u join him to form the govt. All the people becomes Fools. Raj

Wed Jul 10 19:03:18 2002
Name:Raj Naik
Email:rajn2@rediffmail.com
Your Views:I feel are far from being above the law, politicians should themselves be law abiding citizens and set an example for the people that they represent. A person who has a criminal record displays a criminal mentality and a crooked bent of mind.Putting scuh a person in a high position would lead to the deterioration of the entire system.Ultimately there is nothing which prevents him from carrying out his criminal activities from such a position. Also it should be ensured that for a person to stand for elections he or she should possess the nessesary credentials and qualifications.Merely understanding the pulse of the people is not enough to be a politician but he should also be able to govern effeciently and uphold the dignity of the position that he occupies. The present state of lawlessness prevalent in many states of India stems from this and were this to continue the future of the contry would be really bleak.