Allowing convicts to make our laws

The Centre recently defended an exception carved out to protect convicted MPs and MLAs from disqualification on the ground that their removal would destabilise governments surviving on "razor edge thin majority". Though the argument that governments survived with support from the tainted may not be factually accurate, it surely shows that the objective behind Section 8 of the election law, which bars convicted persons from even contesting elections, is at the risk of getting frustrated on account of the exception carved out under section 8(4) for sitting MPs and MLAs.

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