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This Is The Seed Of All Corruption In India -Pavan K. Varma

-NDTV.com

Wherever we may be in other matters in global rankings, in one we are right at the top. India, where 800 million people are still dependent on government doles for a meal, has the dubious distinction of carrying out the most expensive democratic elections in the world. It has been estimated that the 2019 parliamentary elections cost US $2 billion. In addition, parties and individual candidates spent another US $5 billion. It is likely that in the national election due in 2024, these amounts will double.

The nexus between unaccounted money and politics is a malignancy at the very core of our democratic process. It is the beej or seed of all corruption in India. If those who are supposed to make laws against corruption are the products of a corrupt system, how can the rest of the society be clean? When parties take money in cash, or through "electoral bonds" from publicly unidentified donors, they work, irrespective of merit, to reward these 'generous' worthies. When candidates illegally spend many times the prescribed limit on elections, their priority is to milk the state to recoup their "investment". 

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