And what could have spun out itself better timed, into the open, than the case of the BIju Janata Dal leader Anup Sai, now in custody for cold blooded murder of a duo few years back.
The Supreme Court has raised the important issue of identifying the politicians with criminal records making it to the assemblies and the Lok Sabha.
Seen in the present situation, in fact, it sounds bit oxymoronic to see politics detached from criminalisation or people with criminal records in power.
Going by what the logic says, many of the political parties in India have to literally dismantle their cadres and dog whistle the scruples viewed mandatory for an eligible leader in politics.
But, now that seems a dream, more unreal than a fantasy far from the soil of reality.
Sai, like many of his ilk in the field of politics, was, perhaps, one of many leaders involved in such thoughtcrimes which are not only unmanageable but are too notorious to be easily prosecuted.
The exercise needs a CAA momentum
There are hundreds of such leaders who owe their allegiance to the world of criminal anarchy and get into politics by the means, unimaginable in civil societies.
What is more shocking is the lack of a mechanism, or a will, to distance such elements by the party leaderships.
The leaderships of parties, if they can ever, rise above certain pressures and ensure no entry to people who holds such unacceptable views and entertains even thoughts those are criminal in nature.
Be it any political party, it is difficult to assume that, if any of them can chart out a mechanism to identify such ‘netas’ who brazenly display acts and beliefs either contrary to accepted norms or just anti-social.
However, in the given circumstances, it is difficult to expect that, whether the political fraternity would allow an exercise, as assiduously as the CAA etc, to identify the criminal elements in politics which may get a nationwide support.
