2. FACTS ABOUT MONEY AND MUSCLE
POWER IN POLITICS
A politician spend rupees 1 to 3 crore ,on
average taking the total to between
12000crore To36000crore In one cycle of
assembly election.
BSP has declared around earnings of Rs.
200crore ,not a single rupee has come in by
cheque.
Same phenomenon its repeated as the BJP
of its Rs. 297 crore.
Rupees contribution,50% of it RS.35 cr. Came
from cheques looking at their list of donors
however is another story-from Torrent
,Adani, General electrics , Videocon, Ambuja
,etc.
30% of our parliamentarians have
criminal charges against them
.
Congress has slightly strike rate as of its
Rs.72cr. which its corporates have given
to the party.
SP, a candidate with a clean record has
an 18 % chance of winning, his chances
go up to 31% if he has a criminal record.
In the BJP, the chances of being elected
with a clean record is 28%, while with a
criminal record, chances go up to 40%.
MUSCLE POWER AND MONEY –PART AND
PARCEL OF INDIAN POLITICS
3. Criminal Cases registered against the MPs and MLAs of various
political parties-
75% of Shiv Sena candidates
46% of RJD candidates
44% of Janta Dal (United)
31% and 22% of the Bharatiya Janta Party and the Congress.
The 62,847 parliamentary and assembly candidates since
2004, 11,063 or 18% have criminal cases registered against
them.
8% or 5,253 have 'serious' criminal cases registered against
them.
FACTS - EMBARASSING BUT TRUE
--The 4,181 candidates who contested more than one election, 3,173 showed an increase in wealth.
--The average assets of re-contesting candidates went up to Rs 2.34 crore,
--The average assets of the 4,181 candidates with criminal record grew from Rs 1.74 crore to Rs 4.08
crore.
4. -
AN EFFECTIVE
PANEL OF
VOLUNTEERS BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
GOVERNER
OF STATE
EXECUTIVE
OFFICER
FIELD
WORKERS
IN EVERY STATE THERE WILL BE A INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATION HEADED
BY THE “VICE PRESIDENT OF INDIA” .
Main objectives of this organisation will be:-
-To conduct a “Leadership test” which will test the leadership abilities of all the interested
candidates.
-Conduct thorough background check of all the selected candidate to judge their character.
-Declaration of financial assets of the elected candidates and his/her family members annually.
-Fine tuning of the RTI Act so that the public has access all the Information about their
representatives.
-Using the newest technologies to make the voting system more reliable and efficient.
-Educating common people about the importance of their vote and how to select their
representatives.
-Set ting up of separate fast track courts to deal with all the issues related with politicians.
-Introduce the concept of negative voting wherein the public can vote against all the candidates
contesting election and demand new candidates.
-Keep a record of all the party workers and conduct regular check on them.
-Regulate the amount of money spend during the election.
IEB (INDIAN ELECTION BOARD)-
NEED OF A HOUR
5. To analyse the data collected by field worker and make a
report.
Conduct a leadership test.
Manage the RTI entries about the politician.
Handle the accounts of the INDIAN ELECTION BOARD.
Take action according to the criminal trials on the
politicians.
Executive
officer
No. of Workers
required for each
constituency is 20
They should have knowledge about accounting ,management.
Should be post graduate , constitutional knowledge and knowledge
about their own constituency.
STRUCTURE OFTHE IEB TEAM FOR EVERY STATE.
6. Special fast track court:
Criminal and other prime cases can get rapid action. If any one having a prime case have to inform
before one year of election.
Election observers:-
The election observers are posted from other states and often do not understand local language,
customs and practices. An independent group of election observers from local areas must be posted for
each constituency if the election commission would desire.
Election awareness campaign :-
IEB will organize the election campaigns to aware the people to educate them about value of their vote.
Right to Reject:-
IEB will give the liberty to us to reject all the candidate if they wouldn’t like. so we implement
acceptances of negative voting and it should be 35% of total voters . In that situation IEB would cancel
the election and conduct an another election with all new participant.
Prevent manipulation:-
IEB will take vigilance ,if any one found distributing any thing to manipulate the voters liable to reject
from election and affirmative is also considered so.
Curb black money circulation :-
Circulation of black money in the country which plays a big role in the elections can be largely
curtailed by de monetising one thousand rupee currency notes and five hundred rupee currency notes
immediately during election time.
IEB IN PRE ELECTION PERIOD
7. • The cost of election campaign
should be brought down by
encouraging campaign through
print and visual media, for
which concessional charge
should be fixed by the
government and part of the
expenses should be subsidized
by the government.
BRING DOWN
COST OF ELECTI-
ON CAMPAIGN
• The accounts of the
politicians are limited in
the time of elections for
the prevention of
excessive use of money
power during election
campaign.
CREDIT
LIMITING
• Introduce a finger print
based electronic voting
machine in which the
finger print of the person
match with the data base
of UID this would
eliminate bogus voting
FINGERPRINT
VOTING SYSTEM
• Some of the black listed areas
where very less percentage of
voting occur due to ghastly
activities like- booth capturing,
harassing people to vote
forcefully, in these area people
afraid to go out so they can vote
online. For online voting their
would be a unique id related to
their UID .
ONLINE
VOTING
• It is highly imperative to
Fit CCTV camera at every
election booth at
sensitive place to check
the fairness, hence no
one can use the muscle
power.
CCTV IMPRO-
VISATION
•The MP and MLA
constituency fund should be
scrapped forthwith, as there
is lot of evidence of this being
used for corrupt practices and
generation of black money
which is used during
elections.
SCRAP MP/MLA
CONSTITUENCY
FUND
ELECTION PERIOD –TESTING TIME FOR IEB
8. LEADERSHIP TEST
Screening test
Intelligence and
personality test
The board’s Questionnaire
It is a test of reasoning ability and maturity. this is design to test ability of candidates to meet or
resolve common even unfamiliar situations that a politician may face during carrier.
To evaluate mentality how we react when we have to take very quick decision .this will depend on
the situation needing very quick response .
Quick thinking
General aptitude
Situation reaction
Quick thinking
General aptitude
Situation reaction
Command tasks
G.D
Public addressing
This targets to plan tactical skills, administrative and organisational capabilities of candidates .
They have given a team of some common men and have to perform a task such as managing , city
projects, public welfare etc.
Group discussions will test the expression ,argumentative capabilities ,depth of knowledge
,initiative and authenticity of a candidates.
For public addressing participants have to deliver their ideas in a logical manner in front of a
judging panel effectively so that they could show their knowledge, expressions and leadership .
IT WILL OCCURE 4 TIMES IN A YEAR
General aptitude will test the mental capability , basic intelligence and presence of mind.
9. Regular annual examine:-
• Make verification of their monthly income and income sources.
• Collect all details about his property and bank accounts.
• IEB will conduct surveys for getting feedbacks .
IEB will conduct surveys for getting feedbacks from
the people. These surveys will be for: -
• Knowing response of people about their MLA/MP ‘S work.
• Take feedback about elections and about new ideas.
• Getting there response that they are satisfy with system or not.
The interviewer exposed the candidates to certain question in order to gauge his ideas or
views ,positive attitude , self confidence ,potential etc.
Interviewing panel will form a hypothetical situation and judge the candidates according
to it.
POST ELECTION PERIOD- BALANCE AND CHECKS
10. ONE
• Only those people would contest the elections who are fit to lead the people.
TWO
• The concept of negative voting would enable the public to discard all the candidates if they don't see them as
their leaders.
THREE
• Over spending during elections would be curbed as the candidate would have virtually no financial assets
during the election.
FOUR
• All party workers will be held accountable for their activities.
FIVE
• A common podium will be provided to all the candidates by the IEB, so that the role of money is reduced.
SIX
• The voting system would be more efficient and reliable.
SEVEN
• Strict vigilance and CCTV surveillance during elections will check unfair practices to bogus votes.
EIGHT
• The presence of people with criminal records in politics would be curbed.
NINE
• Fast track courts to settle the issues of politicians will provide quick and effective justice . Those proved
guilty will be removed from their post with immediate effect.
IEB –A BETTER WAY TO ELECT
11. The most important challenge is to amend the
articles of constitution which would be opposed
by many political parties for their personal gains.
All the candidates will be judged on a common
platform but all of them don't have the same
upbringing i.e, candidates are not as privileged
Formation of new political parties
would be more complex and
confusing.
It would require more man power and
financial assistance.
Some participants who are very strong by votes
,can be denied by the rule of restrictions of
guilty and appearance in wrong practices.
HURDLES IN THE PATH OF IEB
12. APPENDIX
• CONGRESS PARTY‘S IDEA TO SELECT THEIR
REPRESENTATIVE THROUGH A COMMON TEST.
• SUPREME COURT RULING THAT BANS
POLITICIANS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS TO
CONTEST ELECTIONS .
• ONLINE VOTING WAS FIRST INTRODUSED IN
GUJRAT ELECTIONS.
• REFERENCES:-
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-
30/india/40893897_1_criminal-cases-average-assets-re-contest
www.indianexpress.com
www.economictimes.com
www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in
