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

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Wed Jul 10 14:33:38 2002
Name:Ashutosh Phadke
Email:ashp@homenetmail.com
Your Views: Caeser's wife should be above suspicion. If our elected representatives have failed so far to inspire confidence by their own actions, then it is for the judiciary to "restore" the balance. No one doubts that making laws are a legislative privilege, but no one (except the legislature, obviously) resents the executive or the judiciary laying down the law as required. In fact, if there is one species which is construed to have low, or no morals at all, it is the legislature. So if they do not regulate themselves, then someone must do it for them. In fact, all our representatives must be made to mandatorily declare their assets, verified by the Income tax department, both before and after leaving the elected post. So far as criminal records is concerned, all prospective candidates should be asked to declare their record, duly verified by the local High Court in advance of standing for election. Anyone who has been convicted of any crime, civil or criminal, should be barred from contesting for the next 5 years. Then may it be a traffic accident violation, or murder, or a simple cheque dishonour. Let's hope that the new legislation contains the same strict rules that are being opposed

Wed Jul 10 14:38:59 2002
Name:Ashok
Email:ashokid@hotmail.com
Your Views: Politicians from all parties hardly come to a consensus and here they do to save their own ass..!! -Jai Hind !!

Wed Jul 10 14:40:14 2002
Name:Anoop Jamdagny
Email:jamdagny@rediffmail.com
Your Views: I think supreme court order should be followed and there should be no bill to amend it ..

Wed Jul 10 14:41:14 2002
Name:AP Sinha
Email:ap_sinha@rediffmail.com
Your Views: This is just another attempt by all political parties to ensure that one law governs them, and another governs the rest of the nation. Politicians get away with murder, rape, embezzlement, fraud, assault etc by chanting the mantra of "political conspiracy". For the rest of the Indians, being second class citizens, we have no such luck. India as a nation is cursed to have the worst possible kind of politicians, and it is true that as a nation we deserve the politicians we have.

Wed Jul 10 14:41:15 2002
Name:khan
Email:kikhan60@yahoo.com
Your Views: The government should abide by the directives of the supreme court.

Wed Jul 10 14:42:35 2002
Name:rajesh r
Email:rajesh_r_1@yahoo.com
Your Views: most of the politicians r corrupt, why their is nothing to stop this, then only india will become a superpower.. so please punish all corrupt politicians..

Wed Jul 10 14:42:43 2002
Name:sameer sawarkar
Email:sameersawarkar@rediffmail.com
Your Views: This is a very welcome step by the EC. As every educated person understands today, corruption has reached it's height in the political system of the country. Basically all the political parties are accomplices in the collective crime. It's just an attempt (as usual lately) to protect the vested interests of the fraternity. It's high time that the parties and politicians realize the effects of such attempts, or else the common man, who today is at the limit of his patience will soon come out on streets for a civil uprising.

Wed Jul 10 14:49:39 2002
Name:Mandar Joshi
Email:joshims@indiatimes.com
Your Views: The all party meeting has exposed the "respect" the political parties across the board claim to have. The outcome of the meeting is no different from them who openly said that they will not obey the court's orders on certain sensitive issues. The ruling of the supreme court is a death bell for the casteist parties like RJD and SP. Their opposition can be understood as they will virtually be out if electoral scene as majority of their candidates come from tainted and criminal backgrounds. What is surprising is that the self proclaimed intellectuals like left parties, who always give sermons to Hindus to obey the court orders on an issue of faith, are mum on this and supporting the suppression of court orders. This has brought out how hypocritical our so called "secular" parties are.

Wed Jul 10 14:50:16 2002
Name:Vin
Email:Vinayakgg@yahoo.com
Your Views: Its ridiculous to know politician are united regarding criminalising politics and safe guard them self selves. Are our leaders blind for last 50 years for not making laws to prevent dirtiness in there own field. It's a pain to learn that responsible politicians like Pranab Mukherjee have joined them. When our own civil bodies like Supreme court and EC comes to rescue of people and avoid criminalising this field and avoid people losing faith in politics, politicians uniting to prevent it not in best interest of country.

Wed Jul 10 14:52:12 2002
Name:Jaisimha
Email:jaisimham@rediffmail.com
Your Views: The qualification for entering the politics of India is that you should be in jail at least once. Politics in India at present doesn't attract educationists, intellectuals or any well to do or principled people.

Wed Jul 10 14:53:38 2002
Name:lakshmanan
Email:m_a_lakshmanan@hotmail.com
Your Views: Every Indian citizen shall be treated on par & nobody shall be treated above law. What we see is a lame excuse of saying that the presiding officer can decide the fate of politician. Even if u buy this argument, isn't it better than letting the criminals decide our fate?

Wed Jul 10 14:55:04 2002
Name:PRASANT KUMAR DAS
Email:pkdas1@mailcity.com
Your Views: Every politician wants muddy waters & everybody is tainted and wants to thrive on gun & money.

Wed Jul 10 14:59:23 2002
Name:Amit
Email:amit_in5@rediffmail.com
Your Views: It was really surprising to see that none of the political party supported the move taken by Election commission. This clearly shows that how many politicians are really honest to country & countrymen. Unfortunately such moves to bar tainted candidates have to be passed by the same tainted fellows only.

Wed Jul 10 15:07:38 2002
Name:Dharmendra Yadav
Email:dky2000@rediffmail.com
Your Views: YES, LAWMAKERS ARE ABOVE THE LAW

Wed Jul 10 15:11:29 2002
Name:NEWRISE
Email:gfjkl@rediff.com
Your Views: It is a good decision that all politicians must be asked to disclose their antecedents.

Wed Jul 10 15:13:56 2002
Name:Sanjay R
Email:sanrjay@yahoo.com
Your Views: What more can you expect from the bunch of rogues?? I think it is time we changed the way we look towards the people we elect as our representatives. We have to demand their accountability for the illegal actions committed by them.

Wed Jul 10 15:15:00 2002
Name:Ram Nair
Email:ramcnair@hotmail.com
Your Views: I am of the view that the politicians, irrespective of party affiliations, are trying to scuttle a progressive directive, for their own selfish motives. Unless we forcibly discard all tainted politicians, corruption and lawlessness cannot be eradicated from the country.

Wed Jul 10 15:16:48 2002
Name:ajay gupta
Email:ajai_68@rediffmail.com
Your Views: All the politicians sail in the same boat, being corrupt, and with police records etc. . They all unite together so that their bread and butter still comes from politics. These politicians were least bothered for country. All are doing big dramas. All the politicians are incorrect. They are opposing legislation so that they are not debarred from politics.

Wed Jul 10 15:18:44 2002
Name:Ramanathan M.
Email:emry@rocketmail.com
Your Views: Obviously most of the politicians, if not all, have criminial records. It is clear that none of the parties can agree to implement this. In reality, political parties will cease to exist if such a law is enforced. It would have been great if it gets implemented. Unfortunately, for the citizens of this country, this is not going to happen and the common man is going to suffer at the hands of these criminals.

Wed Jul 10 15:23:54 2002
Name:someone
Email:someone@example.com
Your Views: This is clearly a sham by the politicians. I am wondering why BJP is a part of it. But on the other hand, look at the beauty of it. BJP shows that it is part of other political parties, but at the same time, has quietly allowed the supreme court judgment to go ahead without being appealed. It could have done anything if it wanted to oppose it in the supreme court. Previous governments have done this.

Wed Jul 10 15:27:36 2002
Name:Avinash
Email:avinash_mohota@rediffmail.com
Your Views: This shows the true character an color of our politicians.....No more evidence is required to prove how cunning(!) they can be......

Wed Jul 10 15:30:30 2002
Name:Srinivas Murthy
Email:sanctionsmyfoot@hotmail.com
Your Views: The sheer fact that all parties came together, not for the women's bill, not for an education bill, but to attack a law that aimed at preventing criminals from acquiring position of political importance in the country, shows how politics has entered the clutches of the mafia. These vermin need to be shown their place and I hope there is some law that EC can use to beat them at their own game. Amazing to see many stars of the "Lotus that stays pure in sewage" party have come against this requirement. If their only grouse is against "misuse" of power by local Election Commission officers who could reject nominations, let them come forth for some kind of amendment to provide accountability and integrity to the process, why thwart a clearly progressive move that would help India a long way in improving its standing in the world community?

Wed Jul 10 15:30:50 2002
Name:Nitin
Email:nitu@yahoomail.com
Your Views: Govt is not at all correct they are afraid. Increase of criminalisation is very dangerous.

Wed Jul 10 15:30:59 2002
Name:manoj solanki
Email:solankianjali@rediffmail.com
Your Views: Politicians must follow Supreme court's order. Politicians are not correct.

Wed Jul 10 15:33:09 2002
Name:krish
Email:krish@rediffmail.com
Your Views: Absolutely No. They think that they can do what they want. SC should intervene and ask them to shut up.

Wed Jul 10 15:34:14 2002
Name:Subramanyam Ramanathan
Email:subramanyam_r@fastmail.fm
Your Views: Well, it's obvious. You can't get it straighter. It's as flagrant an admission of guilt as you can get. The 'legislation' they have in mind will probably be one with as many convenient loopholes as they can think of. But then, you can't expect a gang of thieves to implicate themselves. It's shameful to think that we elect these guys. I only wish they wouldn't degrade the word 'probity' by using it with such impudence.

Wed Jul 10 15:39:03 2002
Name:Siva
Email:sivakumar@nordlb.com
Your Views: It is beyond question that Parliament has the responsibility to frame legislation and they have to do so. In this case the legislation is directly affecting the legislators themselves and so the views/directives of a neutral authority such as Supreme Court is very essential. They have no right to reject the SC directive. SC directive should be implemented immediately and we the people and press have to make sure that the new legislation is in the same lines and spirit as the SC directive. We should not allow the rules to be diluted.

Wed Jul 10 15:39:04 2002
Name:AK Dhingra
Email:hi_en_wool@hotmail.com
Your Views: These Lawmakers cannot be treated above Law. They are elected by public and should seek guidance from public, in case of doubt. They have no right to decide about themselves, anything including their Pay & Perks.

Wed Jul 10 15:40:09 2002
Name:N.P.Srivastava
Email:npsricmpdi@rediffmail.com
Your Views: Attitude reflects the intention. Really, if our so called bonafide law makers are interested to curb criminalisation of politics then by now they could have framed the law and could have got it implemented. But they do not want to do this, which is evident from their inaction for the last several years in this regard. That is why judiciary had to come for this. Frankly speaking to-day no political party can claim (if at all they have conscience !) that his/her party is free from criminals. Then why should we expect that our politicians would like to harm their own fellows by framing certain laws? It is something like telling Pervez Musharraf to frame a law for anti-infiltration! Indeed a very sorry state of affairs. I am personally very much disappoined by seeing the shallowness of character of the so called "bhagya vidhata of 100 crores of population".

Wed Jul 10 15:41:08 2002
Name:Vishal Misri
Email:vishalmisri@hotmail.com
Your Views: Why should they be above the law. As a matter of fact among them they have some of the biggest crooks, cheats thugs and criminals. They should never be allowed to be a law unto themselves. They are responsible for the bad state the country presently is in.

Wed Jul 10 15:44:11 2002
Name:Amandeep Singh Dhaliwal
Email:aman_btiin@yahoo.com
Your Views: It was really sad and surprising the way politicians blatantly displayed their intentions of not letting the good guys into politics. The decision by the politicians is certainly condemnable. They have directly attacked the freedom of voters. BJP's stand that only the candidates elected should be asked for the details is very baseless. I think under all circumstances the transparency between the people and the candidate should be maintained. In India as many people are not aware of their right of questioning the history of the candidate, so it is full responsibility of the parliament to ensure that even such people get to know everything about the Candidates. The act of Parliament is deeply condemnable under all circumstances.

Wed Jul 10 15:46:34 2002
Name:K V Shastry
Email:kvshastry@hotmail.com
Your Views: It is very sad that all these politicians are sailing in the same boat and can not think of the country. See the developed countries. None of the patry wants to make merit as base to rule. Finding the loopholes on any better moves are coupled with the political benefits. I think India cannot come out with these stupid law makers. It is very sad.

Wed Jul 10 15:46:59 2002
Name:shakil Ahmad
Email:shakil@ieee.org
Your Views: NO. Infact they should set example by abiding by the law.

Wed Jul 10 15:47:42 2002
Name:chandra prakash lohia
Email:chandulohia@rediffmail.com
Your Views: I think, certainly not. We all know what these politicians do to our parliament. The standard of the persons representing the people going down continuously. Today a learned man thinks thousand times before contesting election. In India, we can not get a government service, if we have any police case, but the leader who will guide the nation, does not require the same, here it comes to conviction of the candidate. And we all know what Jaylalitha done to the judgment of rejecting her candidature for contesting election. She appointed a puppet on the chair of CM, and occupied the seat after recontesting. God know how are they convicted and how they get freed. I think no politician has ever been sentenced to jail. Even if they go to jail, that is a holiday resort for them. I want to ask you what is the harm if we people know about all the information which supreme court has directed to furnish about the candidate. chandra

Wed Jul 10 15:52:11 2002
Name:dhaval kulkarni
Email:the_poet@indiatimes.com
Your Views: The politicians are wrong, as usual..

Wed Jul 10 16:05:23 2002
Name:v k nair
Email:achchanvk@hotmail.com
Your Views: Here the question is, who will bell the cat? Where money & muscle power rules, there is no meaning preaching about cleansing the system. If the election commission tries to clean the system-a right step by all standards- the politicians are not interested because their survival is at stake. It is crystal clear that money and liquor flows in each elections from Panchayat level to Lok Sabha. There is no limitations for expenditure by candidates. A candidate securing 20% of the total valid votes is declared elected and is fit enough to rule us. Whereas a student scoring more than 75% marks is unable to find a seat in a college for higher studies. This is what our democracy is. Our rules and regulations are outdated and need to be updated as per the present day circumstances. Politicians are opposing this only for their advantage. NO politician after 1950 has shown any interest for the prosperity of this country. They are interested only in their welfare. If not, how come legislations seeking upward revision in their emoluments & perks are passed in the parliament without any objection? The real culprits are the electorate who choose incompetent netas and later feed them from his pocket.

Wed Jul 10 16:05:34 2002
Name:Nikhil
Email:nikhil_p79@yahoo.com
Your Views: Law makers are NOT above the law. India's future is unsafe in their hands.

Wed Jul 10 16:07:36 2002
Name:vijay
Email:gvijaykumar@hotmail.com
Your Views: No, this shows all parties are same. Whenever corruption or criminalisation comes they are unanimous. Shame of you politicians!!! "Vinasha kaale vipareetha buddi"

Wed Jul 10 16:07:38 2002
Name:Hemant Gaitonde
Email:h_gaitonde@rediffmail.com
Your Views: The politicians should not be allowed to amend and make new laws.The Constitution should be applicably amended.

Wed Jul 10 16:08:17 2002
Name:Arvind Pravin
Email:andreprevin8@hotmail.com
Your Views: The all party meet and the unanimity of their approach signal only one thing: our politicians are the modern Robber Barons, who will do everything to guard their own turf; even if it has to be done under the garb of 'democracy' and to establish the so-called supremacy of the legislative wing over the judiciary. Unfortunately for India and us real Indians, we are now going to allow the culprits who have subverted democracy to write the new rules that they should abide by. The ultimate irony is that this obnoxious effort will be spearheaded by the BJP, who has for long claimed to be a party with 'values'. May God be with us!

Wed Jul 10 16:10:20 2002
Name:Ashvin Oza
Email:ajoza@rediffmail.com
Your Views: No Individual is above the Law and that includes our Law Makers. When they are making the laws then they should be the first to Respect and abide by them. If a President can be impeached for wrong doing (President Clinton almost was) then the Representatives of the People are also answerable for their actions. For too long the guardians of the Constitution have gotten away with unlawful acts and the people of this country have the right to have representatives who are Clean, Educated and Looked upon as First Class Citizens of the country. Not the type of people we have now. If a citizen is accountable for his/her actions then they should be too. There should be no preferential status for Representatives. The Court is right in their verdict and the Law Makers need to respect the judgment. If they do not, then the people should remove them and put others who will follow the directives of the Court. By rejecting the Court Order they are placing themselves above the Law - they do not have the right to do that and it is unfair to the masses who do. People Power is need to drill into these people that they have NO CHOICE but to follow the directive.

Wed Jul 10 16:10:59 2002
Name:Susheel nair
Email:susheelnair@intermedcorplimited.com
Your Views: Of course it has to be rejected! getting India ruled by a bunch of Mr Cleans is asking for too much. Besides, where will the present politicos go? Do you think they could be absorbed into the society if not the Tihar Jail? We don't want them there, we are better off with them inside the Parliament or their designated govt holes. Has anyone thought of the havoc this rule could wreak on us? Our news print media thrives on reporting their scandals and controversies., TV news will no longer have spice, half the country's lawyers will become jobless and there will be more number of judges in the bench than cases in the court, there will not be a coffin scam and the cattle in Bihar will turn lazy with too much of fodder! CBI and the IT sleuths will be rendered jobless and the police force disoriented., tax-payers money will deluge the govt vaults and central and state prisons will have acute shortage of space. Can you imagine an India like this? On the other hand, if the law does pass, our perfidious politicos will definitely find a way out.., a la Rabri devi or through the million other loopholes our Judiciary system offers in a platter! but hell, if the rule does pass..., WOW!!!

Wed Jul 10 16:14:47 2002
Name:Ram
Email:phidias_pericles@yahoo.co.in
Your Views: I fully support the EC's directive. Politicians are after all the ugliest face of the society and should be severely punished if even the charges against them are not 100% substantiated. They should not be allowed the "benefit of doubt" under any conditions. I, for my life would like to see all the current corrupt crop of politicians behind bars without any access to the outside world kept in solitary confinement for their entire lifetime,which is what they deserve. All this talk of a "comprehensive Govt. legislation" to "curb criminalisation of politics" is just plain BS. I don't expect these criminals to indict themselves-it has to be done by someone "outside" party politics- like the EC. At least, if this EC directive is implemented, we can see on the papers full-fledged ads given by Lallo, Mullu, Jayalalitha, Karunanidhi,et al of what corruption they had done, what is their qualification (apart from rabble-rousing and indirect hands in many murders),etc., so that we can show to the foolish (m)asses who vote for them, what they really do. If not, our stupid illiterate folk will naively still think that a "vote" for these criminals means a "vote" for prosperity.

Wed Jul 10 16:16:08 2002
Name:anoop
Email:user@user.c
Your Views: Is there any way of stopping these idiots? they seem to have complete togetherness in nullifiying the SC order. GOD SAVE THIS COUNTRY!!!!

Wed Jul 10 16:17:14 2002
Name:aaditya
Email:aaditya_2000@yahoo.com
Your Views: The politicians stand up as a consensus against any move that hinders them from faithfully going through there so called duties as they have done so far. by amassing crores of rupees, scams and what not.sukhram is a living example for all this. If a criminal makes a law then all the criminals will be out of jail. let this not be forgotten by politicians who have unanimously rejected the election commission directive. I just wonder how many politicians file IT returns, though a large number own swanky cars, bungalows and what not. why do they fear if they have righteously earned this money then why shouldn't they declare the same while contesting elections. we need clean politicians without any criminal record to make laws as also some learned people who can adorn the august house instead of thugs, thieves,criminals and foreigners. God save my country from such self-seeking politicians.

Wed Jul 10 16:19:43 2002
Name:Hindustani Nagrik
Email:hindustani@hindustan.in
Your Views: There's nothing more to it than meets the eye. While the demanded 'comprehensive legislation to curb criminalisation of politics' is not unwelcome, the parties don't have any business to 'reject' or 'accept' any of Supreme court's directives. Why should the politicians be afraid to disclose their antecedents, is the question one asks. Also it is not that legislation to curb criminalisation of politics is not there. The present laws provide scope to deal with all criminals whether they be politicians or not. But we still see the kinds of Laloo Prasad Yadav, Jayalalithaa, etc. enjoying the most sacred positions in our democracy. So it will be a good idea to leave no scope for even a remote possibility for any public servant to misuse powers granted to him/her.

Wed Jul 10 16:27:04 2002
Name:Paresh Patel
Email:pareshptl@hotmail.com
Your Views: Judicial activism is going extreme these years in India and there are many cases where they have blinded vision to the issue and many a times a romantic idealism about the problem .Political parties might be right about their apprehension of misuse of the power by the ruling party as it recently happened in the case of POTO application in Chennai to MDMK party. We are witnessing in Ahmedabad the gross violation of constitutional right of the commoner by the radical decision of One Justice who has banned power connection to the residential and commercial units which does not have B.U.permission. The court does not admit to the plea that inspite of request and readiness to pay the impact fee the Municipality is not at all agreed to issue B.U. And also a directive to the state government by the justice not to allow any new construction within the periphery of 1 km of any existing lake whether it has water or not. This has stranded many farmers and property holders who want to dispose away their property

Wed Jul 10 16:31:43 2002
Name:Raghavan
Email:raghavan_grs@rediffmail.com
Your Views: Law as such can prevail only if ALL are subject to it. Exceptions to this will only increase the number of anarchists and bandits in the legislatures ending up ruling the country and hold the people, economy, prosperity, diversity, culture, justice all to ransom. In what way does this privilege be deserving on these politicians who contribute nothing of significance to the economy or infrastructure - not that these guys seem to care. End of it all it's the people's money that is spent and squandered on these guys.

Wed Jul 10 16:32:36 2002
Name:Harish H V
Email:harishhv@vsnl.com
Your Views: I beleive that this is clearly an attempt by the politicians to protect themselves. As usual they get together, regardless of party affiliation, to protect their tribe. Let them adhere to the EC guidelines first and then think of lawmaking.

Wed Jul 10 16:33:52 2002
Name:vineet rao
Email:vineet385@rediff.com
Your Views: first of all my congrats to the bunch of people who through PIL have brought the directive from supreme court about electoral reforms. Thanks to rediff for providing a space for discussion on these issues of paramount importance. Otherwise have you ever seen dharnas, rallies, or protests from the part of Indian public in any part of the country against this scourge of corruption.In fact I remind of one rally in Himachal Pradesh in support of Sukhram when he was convicted of corruption. It looks like that these days all rallies,protests are black money sponsored by politicians.All self-proclaimed patriots like people from RSS etc are now nowhere to be seen on these issues.They have never said any word about corruption. It seems that in our country all students unions etc are also have been bought by politicians. They would make fiery protests for futile issues but for this issue they will never do anything because they also do corruption and corruption has been so integrated in to society that no body feels like fighting for it. But this course can be changed if some of us can protest against this decision of politcians. Organise protests and do inform me:vineet385@rediff.com

Wed Jul 10 16:36:06 2002
Name:RS
Email:anonymous@nowhere.com
Your Views: The move by our political leaders to defeat the SC directive was all too predictable. The reality that crime, violence and corruption are the qualifying pre-requisites for any political aspirant is not lost on the khadi brigade. The memories of their past, I'm sure, must have made our politicians misty eyed with nostalgia during the proceedings to defeat this directive. We as an under-privileged working class of India have no right to destroy a tradition or make any move that makes such powerful and great leaders out of people who are otherwise morally and intellectually underpriviledged.

Wed Jul 10 16:38:12 2002
Name:sai chandravadhan
Email:saichandravadhan@hotmail.com
Your Views: No one is above the law. Not the lawmakers, or the law keepers. A ruling of the supreme court is law declared as per Art.141 of the constitution and the election commission was absolutely right in what it did. Until the law to be introduced is in force, the government can adopt the directives of the election commission. Any move against it would only tantamount to disobeying the orders of the supreme court and as a corollary disobey the law of the land. This is surely a step to mariginalise or reduce the impact of the order of the supreme court and in the meanwhile let the whole thing blow over. " tainted" candidates should be out if there has to be a semblance of democracy in the country especially at a time when the country is ready to make inroads as a major power and cross over from a developing country to a developed country, I say we have to provide the world with proof that we the Indians do not tolerate internal disintegration of values as much as we do not tolerate external aggression.

Wed Jul 10 16:40:01 2002
Name:Neenad
Email:neenad@mailandnews.com
Your Views: Are these views actually heard by anyone? Or is this here for us to let out our pent-up frustrations?

Wed Jul 10 16:40:49 2002
Name:Priyangini
Email:priyangini@rediffmail.com
Your Views: It is definitely an attempt to ensure that tainted candidates are not debarred A new legislation will be reduced to just pieces of paper. If we do not want to act on it no meaning in making new legislation. For a change the Supreme court wanted to act and as usual it was stopped. The law says innocent until proven guilty in our politics the rule should be reversed. Politicians are all Guilty until proven innocent.

Wed Jul 10 16:41:36 2002
Name:Sameer Koul
Email:sameer.koul@digital.com
Your Views: No one is above law and I am surprised that BJP has compromised on this crucial issue. Can it still claim to be a "party with difference" ?

Wed Jul 10 16:41:56 2002
Name:laxman fulzele
Email:fulzele@rediffmail.com
Your Views: Indian politician are most corrupt,valueless, no ethics,characterless people. If they wish ,they can sell out the nation. People can not expect good from them. They should feel ashamed of questioning Supreme court rightful thinking. In fact they should have praised SC.

Wed Jul 10 16:43:29 2002
Name:rakesh kashyap
Email:rakesh_kashyap@rediffmail.com
Your Views: no I think lawmakers are not above the laws. Because all laws are depends on morality it means morality is necessary for everybody either he is lawmaker or layman so I want to say that no one is above the law.

Wed Jul 10 16:43:52 2002
Name:Shashank Jain
Email:shashankjain@indiatimes.com
Your Views: How can one expect me to make a law against my self? And similar for politicians. If some one is in public life then public has the right to know about him whom they are planning to send for their welfare(?????). And if they(politicians) are clean than why don't they afraid of Supreme Court's ruling?

Wed Jul 10 16:47:03 2002
Name:satish kodavatiganti
Email:skodavatiganti@hotmail.com
Your Views: Our countries leadership or political parties are spineless. Most of the India's problems are because of the corrupt politicians and criminal elements in them. Our countries problems will be reduced if these people do the right things. It is sad to see but not a surprise that they all unanimously oppose the supreme court directives on corruption. In our country school children are a lot good students than our politicians. Shame on them and pity ourselves.

Wed Jul 10 16:48:19 2002
Name:Patel Paresh
Email:ppatelad1@sancharnet.in
Your Views: This requirement is nothing compared to the qualification needed in Singapore for a MP. In Singapore, the law for any person contesting MP election is that he/she should be a PG from a reputed university of the country and if he wants to be the minister then the other PG should be from the recognised university of the west. This are the qualification required for a person who wants to become a politician in a developed nation.

Wed Jul 10 16:49:44 2002
Name:Pawan Nair
Email:ptsnair@indiatimes.com
Your Views: I feel this move should have come much earlier. Now they will dilute the legislation. A large percentage of our politicians are either themselves criminals or have criminal connections.

Wed Jul 10 16:50:00 2002
Name:Anoop R
Email:anoopr@email.com
Your Views: The Supreme Court has no right to pass judgments over the Parliament, whether good or bad. As a democracy, Parliament should be supreme except that it cannot take away the 6 fundamental rights. Remember, the MPs have to face the people every 5 years or less whoever they are. For the better or worse, we'll have to leave these laws to the politicians and not to the courts. An Election Commission or a Supreme Court reflects only the view of a few high officials, as they interpret the law - the Parliament should have the final authority. If we are to continue as a democracy, there shouldn't be any authority over the Parliament.