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Aspirants with criminal past should not get ticket, EC tells SC
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- The Supreme Court recently agreed to examine a proposition made by the Election Commission (EC) to ask political parties to not give ticket to those with criminal antecedents.
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- It was mentioned before the SC Bench that:
(1) 46% of Members of Parliament have criminal records.
(2) Verdicts in vain: The Supreme Court’s long string of judgments against criminalisation of politics had hardly scratched the surface of the deep rot.
- The Bench asked the petitioner to come up with a proposal detailing how it can be ensured that parties did not fall in with criminal politicians.
- Compliance to September 2018 judgment of SC:
(1) The Commission had tried several measures to curb criminalisation of politics, but to no avail.
(2) Hence it had filed a contempt petition seeking action against the authorities and parties for not complying fully with a September 2018 judgment of a Constitution Bench.
(3) Judgement had directed political parties to publish online the pending criminal cases of their candidates.
(4) The judgment had urged Parliament to bring a “strong law” to cleanse political parties of leaders facing trial for serious crimes.
Sources
The Hindu