If you think Westminster is bad , Volume 43: two independent reports claim that a third of newly-elected Indian MPs have criminal charges pending against them, 15 of them involving murder. That’s a total of 153 out of 543, including nine ministers, according to the Association of Democratic Reforms and the National Election Watch. It [...]

by Tribune Web Editor
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

If you think Westminster is bad , Volume 43: two independent reports claim that a third of newly-elected Indian MPs have criminal charges pending against them, 15 of them involving murder. That’s a total of 153 out of 543, including nine ministers, according to the Association of Democratic Reforms and the National Election Watch. It might save taxpayers’ money if the biggest democratic electorate in the world had a court building attached to its
parliament.

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