Three days before the Karnataka results were declared, the BJP had accused the UPA of criminalising governance. And the party loses no opportunity to dredge up Shibhu Soren, Mohammed Taslimuddin and Lalu Prasad Yadav as epitomes of all that’s wrong with our polity.
But there’s such a thing as complaining too much.
Almost one out of every four MLAs of the BJP elected the new Karnataka assembly is tainted by criminal charges, and 60 per cent of all MLAs who face criminal charges belong to the BJP, says The Telegraph, Calcutta, citing Election Commission records.
Infographic: courtesy The Telegraph
Read the full story: Crime-taint on BJP foot
Churumuri, after Congress’ lost, you have become so desparate!!
Grapes are sour. Sibu Soren, Taslimuddin are accused of murder. Lalu is of stealing 1000s of crores. How many BJP leaders in Karnataka are accused of these serious crimes?
Pragmatic,
Churmuri reacted the same way when Modi won the Gujarat elections. I guess it will wear off after a few weeks…but till then, we have to put up with this breast beating and crying and complaining by churmuri
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Going by The Telegraph logic the entire CPM should be behind bars for 2000 years!! All CPM members are criminals by default:)
It will be amusing to watch Dirty Devegowda giving his opinion on this one!
Nonsense. If the media does not raise moot issues of criminalisation in governance, who else will ?
Congress or BJP, criminals are criminals. There cannot be any pardon for criminals in BJP when there was none for them in Congress. Some people, who are far from pragmatic, prefer to look the other way when criminals are found in saffron colours.
Will Churumuri or the NGO mentioned in the article find out how many of these MLAs are charged with rape/dacoity/murder etc.. which are REAL criminal offences????
Let us take the case of C T Ravi. He has been charged with bringing communal tension, aiding communal enemity etc. Hell, if someone is working for BJP and hindutva, it is but natural for congies, commies and sickularists to foist such charges. But they are not really criminal in nature. I am sure, out of the 25 “tainted” MLAs, bulk will fall under this category.
The GEMS like Shibu Soren, Taslimuddin and Laloo have much more serious charges levelled against them. Not some made up cases of communal tension etc.
True, we shall have a good criminal time this time from today onwards.. The clouds today were also a sign weren’t they.
Despo churmuri………… yeladru hogi mannu tinni……. loads of debate has happened with the kind of criminal cases that MLAs from BJP are facing… none are as bad as raping,murdering……… most of them are related to ” GUMPU GARSHANE” which can be imposed on any one……..
Or is this the case that Churumuri does not read its own blog ;)
It’s hilarious to see the ants in the half-pants the moment anything even remotely revealing them to be human hits the screen. The pattern is the same: hide behind anonymity, blame the messenger, attribute motives, call names, nit-pick, somehow “spin” it so that their guys look better, and somehow pray that it will all not matter because it is all done in the name of the majority.
Where is all this shrill sense of persecution among the half-pants when Kumaraswamy scene with Radhika or the Rs 150 crore bribe was grist for the rumour mill? Or when R.V. Deshpande’s assets were shown by churumuri to have jumped a few thousand per cent? If it is the case of the half-pants that they can do anything because it has been done before by somebody else, they can bloody well shut up about everything because then there is no difference. It is just another set of crooks and criminals in the business. But they won’t admit it, will they?
Hindu bashing is needed to graduate in the Indian news media. You are just a blog, you dont need all that. Take it easy. But when you get some facts, make sure you dig deep enough.
Shankar>>Hindu bashing is needed to graduate in the Indian news media
Correct. 1000s MTs of Newsprints, propaganda was unleashed againt Modi for last 6 years. However, there does NOT exist even a single case against him anywhere in India in Court.
Much was made out of Advani and his association with Babri demolition. Guess, what- after 16 years, he is strongest leader to become PM.
Things like these have made psuedo media exposed like never before. They are now naked before public WITH ZERO CREDIBILITY.
What could be more sad day for a media.
According to the reports of Karnataka Election Watch published by churumuri and available to all chest-thumping Hindutwits who know how to use the “search” window, in the first phase of polling, there were 49 candidates with criminal records (JDS 13, BJP 12, Congress 10, BSP 9, JDU 1, KCVP 1, and SP 1.) In the second phase too, there were 49 candidates with criminal records (BJP 13, BSP 7, Congress 9, JDS 8, other parties 12). And in the third phase, there were 36 (BJP 12, JDS 7, Congress 6, other parties 11).
Except in the first phase when the JDS nosed ahead by a single criminal, the BJP clearly was ahead in this race. You reap what you sow, no wonder the BJP numbers are high in the criminal list. The election commission numbers are generated by the affidavits of the candidates themselves, not handpicked by the Commutwits in the media. And the definition of a crime is the same whether you are a Congress / BJP/ JDS/ other candidate.
Forget Hindu-bashing. If, in spite of the widely advertised criminal records, voters have plumped for 40 candidates with a criminal past, what does it say about the electorate? Or the choices available before them?
I’d say all the 100% could be criminals.. but dude! Its all in our hands how we make our representative work for us. If that needs you too to be a criminal, then we have a problem.
Otherwise, who cares, especially in these times when being a criminal and being called a criminal are two different things.. lets define a criminal again please. But in no way am I supporting that BJP could have criminals and get into the halls of Vidhana Soudha. I am saying we need to take a holistic view of this matter than just point hands..
Aatmasakshi : do you have any detailed break up of crimes of BJP MLAs?
How many of them were booked under “creating Communal tension” like Ravi? We all know, how those who speak for Hindus have faced cases time and again.
A section of Media is deliberately unleashing a propaganda that BJP came to power with help of criminals in Karnataka.
We also know what was their role prior to election. And host of issues like Ayodhya, Shah Banu, Taslima, MF Hussian, Ram Setu.
People are smart to understand what all these means.
1. “ants in the half-pants”
2. “attribute motives, call names, nit-pick, somehow “spin” it so that their guys look better,”
Remark: Pot calling kettle black!
Trivially arbit posts.. Shibu Soren and Shahabuddin and Mohammed Taslimuddin are far greater criminals than the ones in any party in karnataka.
And it is a competition, my crime better than yours, because that is how it is, no one is error free for sure.
@Doddi Buddi
>>entire CPM should be behind bars for 2000 years!!
You are underestimating our notoriety.
The next step is to get all voters in Karnataka criminalised. Now only about 25% are so.
Pragmatic is correct. What is this sudden love for the Congress on the part of Churumuri? If I had the time, I would go through all the articles about elections and parties to see if there was a trend we failed to detect.
As for the smartness of our voters, doesn’t not voting count for anything? Was every vote cast was voluntary?
Churmuri is becoming tasteless everyday. Not so long ago, I used to look forward to reading interesting posts after a hard day’s work. churmuri was refreshing different with it’s quality of content. Unfortunately, it looks like that phase is past. All one gets these days is predictable political posts written by folks who can’t even hide their political leanings cleverly. Churmuri would be better off without dirty politics, although a stale churmuri can’t taste better again.
hmm.. very sorry to say, but it seems most of of the people are wearing saffron cheddis now. all comments say so.
Come on guys, please upgrade your argument level.
please understand you make this post title correct.
Do we have any rational thinkers around?
Corruption is OK as long as people of my religion/ community/ caste/ party do it. Crime is OK as long as people of my religion/ community/ caste/ party do it. Looting is OK as long as people of my religion/ community/ caste/ party do it.
“We all know, how those who speak for Hindus have faced cases time and again.” What a pathetic bunch of half-pants whose under pants are visible each time they open their mouths!
As far as I can see, which may not be much, this isn’t about BJP, Congress, JDS, CPM, whoever. This isn’t about Hindus, Muslims, Christians. This is about India. But on current evidence, if we have such low expectations from our politics and its practitioners, obviously supply is meeting demand.
wellsaid Prashanth.
Good point. Well written Prashanth.
Hilarious how Tathaghata Mukherjee goes red like a beetroot, grandly proclaming that Gujarat CM does not have a single case against him.
True.
He’s got something worse than that.
His administration has lost the trust of the courts. So much so that they have transferred several cases straight out of Gujarat to Mumbai.
Tathaghata Mukherjee says Advani has become strong after 16 years.
How true.
Advani came out very strong when a defiantly aggressive Uma Bharti publicly challenged him on live television, daring him to take action against conspirators within the party. Advani was left speechless, helpless.
He came out very strong after his foot in the mouth comment on Jinnah. He had to face intense flak from his own party members, from RSS and the rest of the sangh parivar. He came out so strong after this entire episode that he had to abdicate the presidentship of BJP.
He came out very strong after a series of gaffes in his autobiography, “My country, My Life”. Topping the list of gaffes was his claim that he did not know that the dreaded terrorists were being graciously accompanied by Jaswant Singh to Kandahar. How strong. The home minister of our country was clueless about a volatile situation that was threatning to erupt into a full blown crisis. Did the then PM not trust him enough to take him into confidence?
We can do with more such ‘strenghts’ of our politicians.
Prashanth is right. Nobody plays the rationalization game as well as we do. One corrupt government after another inherits the state and treats it as its personal fifedom. It is only a matter of time before Yed’s family will be shown to be guilty of the same economic crimes that the Gowda family has committed.
However, I must say this is not about INDIA. Let India take care of itself. This is about Karnataka, your Karnataka, my Karnataka, our Karnataka.
Now they have been sanctified with a position in Legislators Home or in Vidhna Soudha who will take up their cases of criminal nature. Will they be absolved so that their fraternity continues for ever mocking the democracy or any quick legal solution is found. The CM who talks of eradicating corruption and action agains land grabbers will be able to throw his children ( MLA’s with criminal records) to the same fire as that of MLA’s from opposition parties
>>Did the then PM not trust him enough to take him into confidence?
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No Hajpayee did not trust Hajvani, when the preparation for nuclear tests were underway in 1998, no body except Vajpayee and the team of scientists were aware of it, not advani, not jaswant, not george fernandes
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@mayura
Advani was well aware of the nuclear test.
This is unrelated to the discussion. Is it true that the Gowda family wants a new state for the eastern districts of Hassan, Mandya, Mysore, and Ramangara? I believe the new state is going to be called “Apoorva Karnataka.” In return for his silence, S. M. Krishna will be made governor of the new state.
Shani will be the state god, the fox the state animal, and the skunk the state symbol. The state anthem: “Janaganamana adhinaayaka jayahe, jayahe Devegowda.”
I think many of you are forgetting that politicians alone are not the black sheep in government. What about civil servants specially IAS, IPS and officers belonging to such cadres.
They are the ones who keep giving advice and running the state administration.
How many graduates from Karntaka attempt Civil Services Exams?
Not even one percent. Whereas almost all graduates from Bihar, UP and northern states make it a point to try appearing for Civil Services Exam.
I blame corruption on these IAS officers too.
To cite an example, check out BDA website. It says one of theeligibility conditions to apply for plots in Bengaluuru.
1. Any officer belonging to All India Services
That means anybody from India, if he or she is from Civil Services can be an applicant for sites.
This is just one example.
Below is not directly related to this topic.
I remember few years ago both Dhram Singh and Kharge(Some bloggers think that they are great Kannadigas) chatting away to glory to Karnataka cadre officers in Hindi at Bengaluuru. Officers who are allotted to Karnataka are supposed to learn Kannada within 2 years. Those senior officers must have spent decades in Karnataka and never bothered to speak Kannada!!
This may not be the case in Tamil Naadu or West Bengal. Officers will brainwashed to believe that Tamil and Bengali are (the) great(est) cultures on earth.!!
criminals are acceptable in jails. not in parliment.amend laws to prohibit entrance of criminals to parliment