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UIT-RGPV REDUCE THE INFLUENCE OF MONEY AND POWER IN POLITICS GROUP MEMBERS: Aditya Reja Shreyans Jain Animesh Jain Anubhuti Jain Kritika Sahu
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UIT-RGPV

REDUCE THE

INFLUENCE OF MONEY

AND POWER IN

POLITICS

GROUP MEMBERS:

Aditya Reja

Shreyans Jain

Animesh Jain

Anubhuti Jain

Kritika Sahu

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INTRODUCTION

“WITH MONEY COMES POWER

AND WITH POWER COMES MONEY”

India has the largest democracy in the world, so it

becomes the responsibility of our political leaders to

nurture and enhance the Indian politics

But does it really happen???

Lets have a discussion!!

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WHY INDIA IS UNABLE TO

PROGRESS?

No satisfactory mechanism for choosing the best

person in political arena.

Emotional decision making.

Lack of institutions to groom political talent.

Parties depend only on few charismatic personalities

to run the show. There is lack of better alternatives.

No suitable law for handling the cases of political

scandals.

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THE “GANDHI PAPER” POWER

• A game of smoke and mirror.

• Money has unfortunately become the synonym for

Indian politics

• Money power has become so dominant that there is

little chance for common man with honest intentions

to contest elections.

• Poor citizens are cajoled with bribing for votes

because they are vulnerable to the temptations of easy

money due to their desperate economic and social

conditions.

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• Political parties are responsible for this situation,

since they only consider the “win ability”(money

power) of the person for nominating him as the

party candidate.

• Of the candidates who secured their deposits by

winning at least one sixth of the votes, 87% were

Very Rich or Super Rich.

• The winners themselves, in 23 out of 24

constituencies, the seat went to a Super Rich, Very

Rich or Rich candidate.

• The Super Rich had an incredible success rate- 7

out of 10 candidates won.

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MUSCLE POWER – THE BY PRODUCT OF

MONEY

Muscle power in elections is possibly an even more alarming

factor in Indian politics.

According to a recent study by CSDS, money is a key factor in

Indian elections.

increasing numbers of candidates and about 8 elected officials

with criminal backgrounds.

in 1997, at least 40 members of the Lok Sabha and about 700 of

the 4000 plus legislators in various states were “either history

sheeters or had been charge sheeted in criminal case” .

criminal elements think that they can escape punishment by

becoming a member of legislative bodies in the states or at the

centre, thus increasing the muscle power.

Some 17 years ago Vohra Committee submitted its report to curb

criminalization of politics but, no actual implementation in this

regard has still been made.

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WHAT YOUNG INDIA WANTS

1) Solutions to reduce money power:

Regular surveys for checking the assets of persons inpower.

RTI act should be further fine tuned.

Stringent punishment should be given to thegovernment officials who do not provide theinformation sought by the citizens under RTI Act.

A special permanent court must be constituted to lookinto money related scams during elections at the stateand central level.

Scrap MP/MLA constituency fund. The MP and

MLA constituency fund should be scrapped before

elections, as there are lot of evidence of illegal use of

money.

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2. Solution to reduce muscle power:

• To remove muscle power from current politics we have to

go back to basic values in political system.

• The mindset of people should change and the youth

should come forward to participate in politics.

• Voters should be enlightened on the importance of clean

and healthy political system and they should be motivated

to elect good representatives

• The print and electronic media should play the role of

catalyst, it should not be biased in exposing irregularities

at top level

• The media should educate people on the importance of

removal of muscle power from Indian political scene and

ushering in of new political culture.

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GENERAL SOLUTION The ground conditions have to be improved, so that men who value

certain code of ethics are enabled to come to the centre stage of

politics and contest in the elections.

those in pivotal positions like Prime Minister and Chief Ministers

should have the will and quality of mind set to combat corruption.

without eradicating corruption, it would not be possible to defeat

money power and muscle power in elections.

Introduce eye lens match electronic voting, so that bogus voting

could be eliminated.

Internal voting within a ruling party should be conducted in order to

eliminate paternal candidates to come to power.

Regular campaigning should be held regarding political awareness

among citizens with desperate economic and social conditions.

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COMMON MAN ASKS??

Do we want our children to mop up the mess we left

behind or should we do it ourselves, now?

The next time we have an election do we practice our

rights, or shed it?

Silence is no longer golden; politician must start

talking now. Right?

Are we sending right people in the parliament?

Money spent on travel and residential expenditure of

politicians gives no returns. Wont the money spent on

welfare of common people do?

Why Common man’s life is not considered more

valuable than political profit?

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CONCLUSION Corruption is worse than terrorism. Terrorist just blows

off infrastructure, but corruption prevents the formation

of infrastructure.

Parties do not have formal stipend or salary system, so

how is a youth joining the political party expected to

survive, except through petty corruption?

According to electoral campaign rule, average

expenditure is limited to 25 lakh but practically on an

average 6-7 crore are spent. Where does this unaccounted

money comes from?

Muscle power is the bi-product of money power so ,

solution to all the problems having deep roots in politics

comes from the fact, if you want to strengthen the

democracy, you need to join it….

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