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By raising the outer limits of spending, EC has tacitly given a fillip to political corruption
Bhishm Narayan Singh,
Former Governor
Till the 1980s, the political climate of the country was such that even honest and poor people found it easy to contest elections. Then came the era of muscle men and money mongers. Things began to change for the worse as all manner of people started getting elected, giving them a legitimacy that was undeserved. Since then, the political environment has hit rock bottom. Shoe throwing incidents are its mere manifestation. Time has come for political parties as well as institutions to sit and ponder upon the matter so that the sanctity of democracy is restored. The onus also lies on the voters to reject people who use muscle and money power to force their way into elected offices and legislators. Their vote gives these people a sort of moral victory. Naturally, restoring pride to this institution should be the foremost goal in the mind of the electorate.
When I contested for the first time in the 1967 assembly elections, my expenditure came to around Rs 4000. People won’t believe this anymore, it may sound like a fairy tale to them. The Election Commission too has capitulated with changing times. It has set Rs 10 lakhs and Rs 25 lakhs respectively as the outer limit for the expenditure for a candidate contesting assembly and parliamentary elections. This clearly means that people with large sums of money will be preferred by political parties. Very few honest men and almost no one who is poor, can afford such large sums of money. Political parties too will have to garner large sums as donation, which will mean the dominance of people with black money in the decision making of political parties. If a poor candidate raises that fund through donation, there will be obvious strings attached. It will lead to a spurt in corrupt practices as there is no incentive for anyone honest to come forward in public life.
There is another aspect. When workers and voters see so much money in play, they expect candidates to give them their “share”. Workers are very important for a political party to win elections. From party meetings to rallies, from mobilising people to cast their votes to monitoring the counting, all tasks are carried out by party workers. In that respect, they are formidable asset and no party will like to antagonise them. Consequently, their demands will be met. In our time, it was unthinkable for a party worker to ask for monetary remunerations.
Looking back at 1967, I recollect two interesting incidents that happened during the elections. I still remember how one of my workers, Prahlad, during my campaign in Hussainabad, refused to take money from me as remuneration. “Can’t I spend even Rs 10 for this endeavor of yours? Accept it as my contribution to your candidature”. In a similar incident in another village, I had given Rs 25 to the son of the Gram Pradhan to arrange for the conveyance for people who had no mean to reach the polling booth. When Pradhan Umar Khan came to know of it, he blasted his son saying: “You made me hang my head in front of Bhishm babu. Can’t I spend even 25 bucks for his candidature?” All these appear to be in the realm of fairy tales. In the last polls, a candidate in Bihar was caught with a truckload of liquor on election eve. It does not need a rocket scientist to tell you that it was not for that candidate’s personal consumption.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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By raising the outer limits of spending, EC has tacitly given a fillip to political corruption
Bhishm Narayan Singh, Former Governor
Till the 1980s, the political climate of the country was such that even honest and poor people found it easy to contest elections. Then came the era of muscle men and money mongers. Things began to change for the worse as all manner of people started getting elected, giving them a legitimacy that was undeserved. Since then, the political environment has hit rock bottom. Shoe throwing incidents are its mere manifestation. Time has come for political parties as well as institutions to sit and ponder upon the matter so that the sanctity of democracy is restored. The onus also lies on the voters to reject people who use muscle and money power to force their way into elected offices and legislators. Their vote gives these people a sort of moral victory. Naturally, restoring pride to this institution should be the foremost goal in the mind of the electorate.
When I contested for the first time in the 1967 assembly elections, my expenditure came to around Rs 4000. People won’t believe this anymore, it may sound like a fairy tale to them. The Election Commission too has capitulated with changing times. It has set Rs 10 lakhs and Rs 25 lakhs respectively as the outer limit for the expenditure for a candidate contesting assembly and parliamentary elections. This clearly means that people with large sums of money will be preferred by political parties. Very few honest men and almost no one who is poor, can afford such large sums of money. Political parties too will have to garner large sums as donation, which will mean the dominance of people with black money in the decision making of political parties. If a poor candidate raises that fund through donation, there will be obvious strings attached. It will lead to a spurt in corrupt practices as there is no incentive for anyone honest to come forward in public life.
There is another aspect. When workers and voters see so much money in play, they expect candidates to give them their “share”. Workers are very important for a political party to win elections. From party meetings to rallies, from mobilising people to cast their votes to monitoring the counting, all tasks are carried out by party workers. In that respect, they are formidable asset and no party will like to antagonise them. Consequently, their demands will be met. In our time, it was unthinkable for a party worker to ask for monetary remunerations.
Looking back at 1967, I recollect two interesting incidents that happened during the elections. I still remember how one of my workers, Prahlad, during my campaign in Hussainabad, refused to take money from me as remuneration. “Can’t I spend even Rs 10 for this endeavor of yours? Accept it as my contribution to your candidature”. In a similar incident in another village, I had given Rs 25 to the son of the Gram Pradhan to arrange for the conveyance for people who had no mean to reach the polling booth. When Pradhan Umar Khan came to know of it, he blasted his son saying: “You made me hang my head in front of Bhishm babu. Can’t I spend even 25 bucks for his candidature?” All these appear to be in the realm of fairy tales. In the last polls, a candidate in Bihar was caught with a truckload of liquor on election eve. It does not need a rocket scientist to tell you that it was not for that candidate’s personal consumption.
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An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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