1. Manthan
Fairness at Play:
Introducing Electoral Reforms to Reduce Influence of Money and Muscle Power in
Politics
TOPIC
TEAM DETAIL
 PRASHANT AGRAWAL
 ABHISHEK VERMA
 NIKHIL PANDEY
 PRAVEEN SISODIA
 DEEPAK GURURANI

2. Pending criminal cases against MPs are
162 out of 543 nearly 30% of the entire
house with an increase of 27% in 2004.
Serious pending criminal cases are76
out of 543, or 14%, an increase of 31%
over the 58 members in 2004.
Top two national parties, Congress and
BJP, have 21% and 38% of their MPs
facing criminal charges.
Considering only serious criminal
charges, UP leads with 28%, followed
by Gujarat 27% and Maharashtra at
21%.
INDULGENCE OF POLITICIANS IN CRIMINAL ACTS
Scenario of Lok Sabha (2009)

3. PROPOSED SOLUTION TO MINIMIZE CRIMINALIZATION IN POLITICS
METHODOLOGY
1.Party must declare it's candidate four months before
election. He will contest election if he has no criminal
background. If the candidate found alleged in crime then
party must nominate the secondary candidate.
2. If secondary candidate is also alleged in crime, then both
the candidates will face trials in the fast-track court
simultaneously. If secondary candidate has no criminal case
then secondary candidate will wait till the judgement of the
primary candidate.
3.Fast-track court should come to a verdict within 3 months
whether the alleged candidate is guilty or not.
4.One who comes out clean will contest election , indeed
primary candidate will be given preference if both comes out
clean. If both found culprit then the party will restrict from
electing from that seat.

4. Issues Proposal Date Description
Political
party
reform
15th july 1998
5th july 2004
Parties are required to get their account
audited annually and should be put in public
domain.
Misuse of
religion for
electoral
gain
First bill introduced
1994,29th Jan 2010
Acts of misuse of religion by political parties.
Govt.
Sponsored
advertise
5th july 2004
Ban on advertisements on achievements of
govt. 6 months prior to expiry of term of the
house.
Transfer of
election
officer
15th july,1998
Reiterated in july 2004
Ban against transferring any election officer
without concurrence of commission for a period
of 6 months prior to expiry of house.
Politicians never let pass those bills which could govern them. Due to
selfish issues, internal clashes several times we became unable to get
passed bill. Here are some of those bills-
POLITICAL POWER TO RESIST LAW
We provide the solution of this serious
problem by proposing a committee
which have no influence of
Government . Criteria of our proposed
committee will be-
Committee will handle major
concerns of those bills which
adversely affect to politicians of
parliament.
It will also handle the bills which
have national importance (which
affect whole nation’s public)
Proposed body of committee to solve
above problem will be elaborated in
succeeding slides-

5. PROPOSED SOLUTION TO REDUCE POWER OF POLITICIANS
Bar Association President will be accountable to
project the real view of law and order in the society.
LEVEL
4
LEVEL
3
LEVEL
2
LEVEL
1
Appointment of three members in each district which
comprises Labour Association President, Journalist and
Bar Association President.
Why Labour Association President
LEVEL- 1
Labour Association President will be accountable for
information at basic level so that upper bodies could
come to know that privileges provided by the
government are reaching to needy persons.
Journalists are accountable to show all problems from
various dimensions of society. Selection procedure
depends on NGOs.
Why Journalist
Why Bar Association President

6. PROPOSED SOLUTION TO REDUCE POWER OF POLITICIANS
 Most responsible part of the system to verify the
problem statement and proposed solution as well
as to check compatibility.
 Have all the powers whether to pass or not.
LEVEL
4
LEVEL
3
LEVEL
2
LEVEL
1
 Having 28 persons representing to each state.
 These will be the retired justice of high court.
 All gathered information by district level authorities
will be passed to these highest authority of states.
LEVEL- 2
 It will be composed of prominent I.A.S officers,
Economists, NGOs, Professors etc.
 Refined problem statement will be forwarded to these
officers.
 They will present the optimum solution of problem.
LEVEL- 3
LEVEL- 4

7. Proposed model will require around ₹ 27.5 cr of
funding from government annually

8. EXPENDITURE ON ELECTIONS
Estimated ₹ 10,000 crore cost for the Lok Sabha
elections includes about one-fourth or ₹ 2,500 crore
being spent through “unofficial money” or the cash to
be paid to voters by the candidates.
Government spending about ₹ 1,300 crore by election
commission and about ₹ 700 crore to be spent by
various central and state government agencies for
purposes like photo identity cards, EVMs and polling
booth.
Wealthy candidates had a significantly higher chance
of winning elections-
32.65% of the candidates worth ₹ 5 crore or more won
Only 0.43% of the candidates worth less than ₹ 10
lakhs won
SUGGESTED SOLUTIONSCENTER FOR MEDIA STUDIES (CMS) FACTS
.li

9. Booth Capturing
Local peoples by the use of manpower took over the
control of the polling booth and threaten the general
public to cast vote in favour of their party and also by
themselves cast many illegal votes.
 Prevented by making only some selected polling booths
in the region preferably in the regional police and army
areas.
 The booths in the rural regions will be well guarded by
the regional police and other security wings.
 The whole election procedure will be covered by the
local electronic and print media.
SUGGESTED SOLUTION
SOME BASIC ELECTION PROBLEM AND ITS SOLUTION
SUGGESTED SOLUTION
PROBLEMPROBLEM
Punishment for electoral offences
Punishment for electoral offences under Sections 171B
and 171C, of the IPC are unsatisfactory. These were
provided as far back as in 1920. As offence of incurring
expenditure for promoting the election prospects of a
candidate, punishment for it under Section is a meagre
fine of Rs.500.
Provisions should be made for some stricter punishment
for such offences such as imprisonment up to two years or
so. Stricter punishments will have deep impact on the
mind of the parties.

10.  Due to provision that donation of below ₹ 20000
can be kept anonymous ,a major chunk of the
donation to party remains anonymous.
 Major part of the donation comes from the
business houses which expects favour from the
parties in the future.
 Anonymity of the donations helps in putting the
black money into the political system .
 Largely local criminals put their money into the
election to support the candidate which help them
in the future.
ANONYMOUS DONATION
Data suggests between 2004 -11 ,congress received over ₹ 2004 cr and BJP around ₹ 994 crore
from the donors. The source of 85% of donation is unavailable.
 There should be specific limits to such donations by
the corporate houses but law allows them to
contribute on the percentage basis of profits of a
company which may run to a very huge amount in
cases of large profit making companies.
 There should be no anonymity in donations and
parties have to give detailed information of
donations they receive from all the resources.
 Parties should have to undergo audit of all their
donations and accounts.
PROBLEMS SOLUTIONS

11. Decrease
criminalization
Ensure fair
and unbiased
election
Increase
voter
turnout
Recreate trust of
general public in
democracy
Eagle eye on election
expenditure and
anonymous
donations
Reduce
involvement of
money power in
the election
Ensuring fair
elections
Making public
various parties
promises
Pressure on
parties to turn
their promises
Corruption at each level of society could fail
implementation of these ideas in fair and
unbiased manner.
TENTATIVE CHALLENGES, IMPACTS AND RISKS
RISK
IMPACTS CHALLENGES
 Governing authorities will oppose laws that have
potential to create problems for them in future.
 Would respective authorities be interested to participate
in proposed system?
 It raises a question upon Fast track courts' efficiency.
Would these courts be able to resolve all the cases
accurately within given time limit.
 It would be really very challenging task to maintain
proper coordination among authorities.

12. REFERENCES
 The criminalization of Indian Politics By Seshadri Kumar's Report (www.leftbrainwave.com
/2011/10/criminalization-of-indian-polotics-part.html).
 Election Commission of India. (n.d.). Lok Sabha Election Expenditure.
(http://eci.gov.in/eci_main1/expenditurel_loksabha.aspx)
 Association for Democratic Reforms. (2009). Analysis of Criminal and Financial Details of MP’s
of 15th Lok Sabha (2009). (http://adrindia.org/files/High%20level%20criminal,%20financial
%20&% 20educational%20analysis%20LS%202009.pdf)
 Indian Voting System -Wikipedia
 Fast track court-Press Information Bureau ,Government Of India.
 National Advisory Council (nac.nic.in).
 Electoral Reforms proposed by the Election Commission of India (eci.nic.in/eci_main/
electoral_ref.pdf)