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More than 40 per cent Indian MPs face criminal charges including rape, murder: study
[DAWN] More than 40 per cent of politicians in India's new parliament face criminal charges ‐ some as serious as murder and rape ‐ and the list is growing, an electoral reform group said on Saturday."They are almost as bad as the Congressional Black Caucus" One member of parliament for the opposition Congress party is battling 204 cases including manslaughter and robbery, the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) said. At least 233 of the 543 members named as winning seats on Thursday face criminal proceedings, according to the ADR, whose election chief Anil Verma said there is a "disturbing trend" in parliament that "is bad for the democracy". The ADR said it studied the records of 539 of the winners and found that the number facing criminal cases was the highest since it started studies in 2004. Posted by: Fred 2019-05-26 |
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