NEW DELHI , Ramesh Kumar voted for a candidate with 12 criminal cases. He won. He's now an MP. He's now making laws. He's now deciding your future. This is not democracy. This is a criminal enterprise.
India has 43% of MPs with criminal cases. That's 234 out of 543. 29% have serious criminal cases, murder, rape, corruption. But we vote for them. We elect them. We give them power. Why?
Because they promise us benefits. Because they give us money. Because they belong to our caste or religion. Because we're too desperate to care. Because we're too ignorant to understand.
Dr. Anjali Sharma, a political scientist, explains: 'We vote for criminals because we think they'll help us. But they don't. They help themselves. They steal. They kill. They destroy. And we keep voting for them.'
The cost is not just political. It's human. It's the laws that protect criminals. It's the policies that help the rich. It's the systems that oppress the poor. It's democracy itself being destroyed.
But here's what they don't tell you: we are complicit. We vote for criminals. We accept corruption. We enable the system. We are not victims. We are accomplices.
The solution is not in the hands of politicians. It's in our hands. It's in voting for honest candidates. It's in refusing to accept criminals. It's in demanding accountability. It's in using our power, the power of 1.4 billion people, to break the system.
But until that happens, criminals will keep ruling. Democracy will keep dying. And we'll keep being complicit in our own destruction.