Telegraph, June 2009: “A total of 153 of the 543 politicians elected in the biggest democratic election history have criminal cases pending, including nine ministers, according to a study by two non-governmental organisations, the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW)
… there is a possibility that some of the charges were brought by political opponents …”
Patrick French, in researching for his book ‘India: A Portrait’, found that every Indian MP under 30 has in effect ‘inherited’ a seat from a family member. Not quite as non-representative as the composition of the Chinese people’s national assembly, but …
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