Poor In India Starve As Politicians Steal $14.5 Billion Of Food

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

Whats with Indian politicians and criminal backgrounds? After reading the article, I noticed that the ministers have criminal backgrounds and their infringements (including murder, gangsterism, kidnapping etc) are disclosed to the electoral commission. Why not just ban people with criminal records from becoming ministers and bureaucrats?
The blind herdsman in the article could have run the grain distribution shop better than most Indian babus.

 

[Holmes]

Why not just ban people with criminal records from becoming ministers and bureaucrats?

They are like in the election time and after winning many become like

 

[Dushmann]

solution

That should have happened 5 decades ago for limited period of 2-3 decades. Not useful now.

 

[Ticker]

By world bank criteria - In 2011, World Bank stated, 32.7% of the total Indian people falls below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 per day .
Poverty in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

India does not agree with world bank definition assigned to people living below poverty line.