Last week saw the death of the world’s most dreaded terrorist, Osama bin Laden. But do you know what happened when one of India’s most wanted, Abu Salem, was arrested and put behind bars in 2006? He wanted to contest assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and amazingly there was no law in the country to stop him from doing so.
Sitting in jail in 2006, Abu Salem was accused in the 1993 Bombay blasts, the murder of Gulshan Kumar and in an assortment of murder & other criminal cases. So Abu Salem decided to do what any hardened criminal in India would do. He thought of the one place where he would always be welcome. The one place where no one could touch him. The one place where he would feel at home. He thought of joining Indian Politics.
To be fair to Salem, Indian Politics is a sanctuary for criminals. Almost every third MP in the Lok Sabha has pending criminal cases and the current UP Assembly has close to 140 MLAs with pending criminal cases. Thus it was only natural for Salem to look towards the one place where criminals party 24X7 and fill their pockets with ill gotten money (something Salem already was an expert at).
In the middle of this drama, India’s then Chief Election Commissioner, N.Gopalaswamy, wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh imploring him to initiate long pending electoral reforms. Here is a copy of the letter:
- Chief Election Commissioner’s letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
The letter went on to stress on the ”lurking danger” of the likes of Abu Salem and Dawood Ibrahim becoming MPs or MLAs.
Salem was set to contest from the constituency of Mubarakpur. But unfortunately for him, his international business had kept him out of India for too long and his name was missing from the electoral roll.
The laws for contesting elections in India remain the same despite numerous efforts by civil society and the election commission. Maybe someday in the near future Indian citizens will have the privilege to voter for Abu Salem or Dawood Ibrahim. It’s also probably the right time to start a ‘fast unto death‘ against criminals in parliament. Annaji shuru karo… hum tumhare saath hai..
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heaven for terrorist
kya hoga is desh ka har neta chor hai aur jo imandar hai wo inke khilaf khade nahi hote…..
Yes we should consider this issue as emerging……..
from the depth my heart ..love this article … mind opener …
yeh hamare desh ka durbhagya hai kee hum abu salem jaisey atankvadiyo ko apni jailo mien rakh kar khila rhey hai atankvadi ko aresst nhi sidha shoot karna chahye par kya karey hmarey desh key neta chor hai wo har cheez par rajneeti karna chahtey hai.
Oh my.. so shocking.. we require to amend our laws and build a clean parliament..
Ab to ye sabit ho gaya hai ke pakistan me koi bhi safe nahi hai yahan tak ke osama bin laden bhi aur india me sabhi safe hain yahan tak ke kasab bhi……
yes, i m totally agree wid ur point….. india me safety k sath muft ki rotiya bhi tudvai ja rai hai.. na jane kya hoga is desh ka……
it seems indian politics has become the second home for al d respcted,hardwrking criminals…:/
from the depth my heart ..love this article … mind opener …
It’s the right time 2 review about our laws and dirty politics… Excellent article with good proofs…..
bahi log yeh bhi sach hai ki yeh log contest karenmge to inko vote bhi milenge aur yeh jeet bhi jayenge
I can tell you one thing, Abu Salem will prove to be better MP/ MLA than many of the sitting ones
@4bf51c4546d9067335cf7ea458470644:disqus We sincerely hope that day never comes 🙂