February 17, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in his speech: Half of the members of the Indian Parliament have allegations of rape. These people have come to power to show that the Indian government has deviated from its original intention when it was founded. As soon as this statement was made, India was instantly furious and immediately raised a diplomatic protest against it.
After reading Lee Hsien Loong's speech, we went to check the relevant data, and we can only say that Lee Hsien Loong really slandered Indian politicians. Here we support the Indian government and ask Lee Hsien Loong to apologize, because according to data after the 2019 Indian general election, there are a total of 539 members of the Indian Parliament, of which only 233 are involved in criminal charges, and the MPs involved only account for 43% of the total number of Indian Parliament, which is not yet half.
And Lee Hsien Loong's statement is not accurate, because the data shows that only 39% of the members involved in rape in this group of MPs committing crimes, not as high as half of what he said. The rest involves murder, kidnapping, and robbery, including an BJP MP suspected of terrorist attacks. Seeing this, do you think that Indian politics is really magical? So far, no Indian MP has been prosecuted for this? This is really magical. Today, we will use Lee Hsien Loong's evaluation of Indian politics to tell you the outrageous stories that happened in our neighboring countries.
Various problems in the Indian political arena frequently occur, and various terrifying illegal and criminal acts such as gang rape are emerging one after another. To a large extent, the root cause of the problems comes from India's political system flaws. According to the Indian scholars themselves, low-quality democracy is sending the entire India to hell. When talking about the issue of the Indian system, the first thing to put on the table is judicial corruption and excessive procrastination.
Indians describe the judicial problems in India like this: judicial corruption in India is a cancer that starts at a lower level and gradually rises. 600 district courts and hundreds of lower courts are the main channels of communication between the Indian judiciary and its ordinary citizens. But in 2013, 36% of Indian citizens reported bribing the judiciary, a pathetic reality that many senior judges themselves confirmed. A 2007 survey of bribers classifieds showed that 59% of respondents bribed lawyers, 5% bribed judges, and 30% bribed court officials for quick and favorable judgments. Collusion between defense attorneys and prosecutors in the case, manipulation of the opaque judicial system by court officials, and the political impact on the appointment of judges in the lower courts has created a toxic judicial system. And this toxic judicial system continues to extend and eventually spread throughout India.
In the murder case of a famous model in India back then, an Indian MP met a model at a cocktail party, but was beaten to death by the MP on the spot just because the model forgot to toast. The funny thing is that in such a conclusive case, the judge was acquitted. After that, after the continuous fermentation of public opinion, the congressman was sent to prison. The judge who was sentenced to not guilty was not punished for this.
. What is more sad than judicial corruption is that Indian law does not have a set of means to deal with such judicial corruption. Moreover, because it inherited the British bureaucratic system, the Indian judicial community's handling of corruption is extremely cumbersome. Even if a judge is charged with corruption and the evidence is as solid as a mountain of evidence, the Indian court cannot fire him. Because the judge's talks and procedures are extremely complicated, 100 members of the House of Commons and 50 members of the House of Commons must submit complaints and sign them. Then, a special committee consisting of two judges and a jurist conducts the investigation. If the investigation is approved by chance, the impeachment case needs to be sent to both houses for debate and must be completed during a parliament. If the process has not been completed due to various problems, then congratulations to everyone, the previous process will be repeated at the next meeting, starting with the signatures of 150 members of the House of Representatives.
So, from the beginning of independence, India has only had three judges facing impeachment as of 2016. And only one of them was successfully impeached, and the other two, one failed to impeach and the other resigned automatically. This leads to the corruption and incompetence of the Indian judicial system, which is known to everyone, but is powerless.
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And the most unbearable thing about India's judicial system is excessive procrastination. According to a 2018 paper, Indian courts now have a backlog of 30 million cases, with the maximum trial period in a civil case reaching 20 years and a maximum trial period in a criminal case reaching 30 years. Weak infrastructure, long-term judicial vacancy, manual procedures, weak legal and order enforcement systems, long-term trials and delayed judgments are the main causes of corruption in judicial institutions at all levels. Indian people gradually realized that due to the long-term delay of the court, they had to pay bribes at various stages to speed up the trial process.
Because the judicial trial process in India is too long, it is often an embarrassing situation where the case is tried halfway through, and it is found that the key evidence is gone due to improper storage, and the criminal can only be released. In the Matu girl rape case ten years ago, Matu was raped and killed on the way out of school. The biggest suspect was Santosh Singh, the son of a senior police officer. Then, the Supreme Court of India tried it for a full decade, and finally released the person because of the loss of evidence. So there is a saying in India that late justice is deprived justice.
Under such unfairness, the Indian Parliament has a crime rate of 43%, which is not surprising. The second reason for the high incidence of crime in India is its electoral politics of power-money transactions.
The democracy of India is called low-quality democracy in academia. Because there are nearly 700 million illiterate people in India, and in order to allow these people to vote, Indian election candidates are generally represented by patterns because the people are illiterate. In this case, a large number of ordinary people are easily fooled by politicians. Either coercion, temptation, or some small favors, the people at the bottom of India can willingly follow a candidate. The number of middle-class people in India who truly understand political principles and implement policy strategies is too small to compete with the huge votes at the bottom. In this case, the concept of votes has become popular in Indian politics.
In large-scale elections, the vote base generally refers to slum ballots controlled by politicians. Because of the strong influence of local politicians, it has brought certain conveniences to the slums, such as some water and electricity. And in return, local people will vote for the candidates designated by the politician. In rural areas, the landlord class has long controlled the voting rights of the masses. For farmers, if they do not want to get into trouble, they can only vote for the candidates selected by the landlord. Under this situation, Indian politicians have long conducted various power-for-money transactions for rural landlords and slum gangs, further deteriorating India's political environment. After receiving the money, the underworld and the landlords will not only ask local residents to vote for the politicians who pay them, but will also intimidate their opponents by force and prevent others from supporting him. Once the politician is elected, he will inevitably turn a blind eye to the illegal behavior of these voters in the political field.
India's election corruption is far more than that. If Indian politicians want to get a high position, they must invest a lot of money in the election and bribe voters. Whether it is selling directly or communicating with the ticket warehouse, these require money. In Western democratic systems, the electoral donation system has been criticized because it is impossible for politicians to not repay their supporters after taking money from their supporters.
And India's electoral system is even more explosive. Because India's local economic environment is underdeveloped and lacks the soil for political donations, the local elections are all raised by political parties. The ruling party is fine, but it often chooses to embezzle public funds or use the political power in its hands to bribe voters. And the opposition party can only make wild promises and pay out of their own pockets to buy votes. But problems follow one after another. Since so much money has been spent on votes, once elected, do you have to consider making a comeback? This has led to corruption. After all, if you don’t get it back, what will happen in the next election?
Indian scholar Kofie Annan commented: "Corruption hurts the poor by misappropriating funds for development, undermining the government's ability to provide basic services, promoting inequality and injustice, and hindering foreign investment and aid."Corruption disperses the existence of the election process. "Any form of corruption is regarded as an incurable disease, which will cause many adverse problems, bring social and economic disadvantages to society, and damage the morality and ethics of civilization." Corruption in India is the result of the connection between bureaucracy, criminals and politics.
At the same time, there are often very deep reasons for political corruption in India, that is, family politics. For India, the main political groups exist in the form of families. These include Nehru Gandhi of the Congress Party Family. Naidu and Advani families of the BJP, as well as political families that dominate various states. According to decrypted data in 2011, the proportion of leaders at the western states, municipal and county levels of India has been hereditary by political families of three or more generations, exceeding 72%. In many elections, Indian people will be surprised to find that all parties to the election are from the same family. For example, children are against fathers, nephews against uncles, etc. We just talked about that Indian elections require huge amounts of funds as support. In this case, it is easy to lead to the political families and economic interests. In the end, we use political rights to seize excess profits, and then use economic strength to manipulate elections. This family politics spread all over India is called the cancer of India by Indians.
Compared with the corruption famous for Congress officials, the BJP, which follows Modi , is often troubled by a crime and incites racial violence. Let's tell you about this with the experience of an investigative reporter. In 2002, Modi was in Gujarat is the chief minister and is responsible for managing the state. A vicious attack occurred in the area, in which a Muslim attacked a section of the Hindu carriage with a burning bomb, resulting in the death of dozens of Hindus. Thereafter, a series of massacres against the Muslim people broke out in Gujarat, and the local government did not interfere. After the massacre, even the police did not intervene.
Ten years after the incident, a brave investigative reporter entered Gujarat, first disguised as an extreme Hinduism. believers, and then came to Gujarat through heavy introductions. There, he heard stories about BJP officials about the massacre ten years ago.
They talked about BJP cadres making explosives in a mine and using these weapons to smash Muslims' houses. They organized Hindu crowds to carry out group violence against Muslims. And they clearly stated: Gujarat Chief Minister Modi knew and participated in the matter. After obtaining the evidence, the reporter ran to html without stopping 1 Delhi , released these news and handed over the information to the Supreme Prosecutor. As a result, because of Modi's tough move towards Muslims, the Indian people voted for support, and directly sent Modi to the position of Indian Prime Minister. The investigative reporter was so angry that he resigned directly. By the way, because of the Gujarat tragedy, the United States put Modi on the ban list and banned him from going to the United States. After being elected Prime Minister of India, considering that he wanted to fight against China and needed to meet with the Indian Prime Minister, The US State Department urgently brought Modi off the ban list Take it out. So on some issues, the United States has a very flexible moral bottom line.
We just saw that there are a series of problems in Indian politics, such as family politics, judicial corruption, election transactions, etc. Under these superpositions, various incredible corruption cases will break out. Let’s first tell a joke that has been circulating in India for a long time.
An Indian minister came to the home of a leader of a certain country. He found that the family of a certain country was magnificent and said: You are so meager How can the income be so good? A leader of a certain country said: My friend, look at the hydropower station outside. The plan is 2,000 tons of steel, and 200 tons are in my house. Look at the eight lanes outside. There were originally 50 cm of stones, but now there are only 30 cm, and there are 20 cm in my house. After hearing this, the Indian minister suddenly realized and understood.
Three years later, the leader of a certain country was invited to visit India and came to the Indian minister's house. At first glance, he saw the five-story palace of the minister, and then they took the elevator to the top of the palace.The Indian minister pulled the leader of a certain country and pointed at him. Did you see the highway over there? Have you seen the dam over there? The leader of a certain country opened his eyes wide, but saw nothing, and subconsciously shook his head. After hearing this, the Indian minister laughed loudly, "My friend, it's right if I didn't see it, they are all in my house."
If you think this is a joke, you are wrong. In an Indian national program " truth interview ", an Indian auditor told such a story. Among them, local funds have been allocated to build four dams, and many countries have corruption in the engineering field, but India has made flowers. They only built one dam and then blacked out the money for the remaining three dams. When the auditors went to audit, they drove the auditors and kept taking detours, looking at a dam four times. All the auditors laughed at. But do you think this is the most magical thing? No, the most magical thing is that no official was punished in this incident.
In India, there are also cases of punishment, but it is often caused by huge losses to India. For example, the Commonwealth Olympics that India once held. Taking rolled paper as an example, the price of a bucket of toilet paper is RMB 2.2, while the actual purchase price is equivalent to RMB 375.1. So much so that the actual expenditure of the Commonwealth Games , which had a budget of $75 million that year, reached $8 billion. This directly led to the arrest of the Indian Olympic Committee Chairman Kalmandi by the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation. This is the case in India when a Commonwealth Games cost the Olympics.
Now let’s go back to Lee Hsien Loong’s speech: Half of the members of the Indian Parliament have rape allegations. These people come to power to show that the Indian government has deviated from its original intention when it was founded. It seems extremely real.
In the past few decades, India has long regarded my country as a competitor and has put a stumbling block on my country in many fields. For itself, it is constantly repeating its political superiority and claiming to be the world's largest democratic country. But as an American politician said: Can votes make a black man with no fixed place equal to a white man with a manor? If the economy and development cannot be guaranteed, then electoral politics is a game for the rich.
Now Lee Hsien Loong just pulled down India's fig leaf, which made the Indian political arena collectively jump. Instead of having time to protest diplomatically, it is better to find a way to solve your own problems. Finally, in the end, the top Indian officials never shy away from illegal things in the election, and even say it proudly. Because in their opinion, this behavior shows that one has the ability. With the upward and lower effectiveness, the crime rate across India has soared. The reason why various vicious cases in India are frequently lies in the indifference of the high-level officials to the law, which makes the lower-level people proud of committing crimes.
When Shang Yang reformed , Qin Dynasty was dissatisfied with the whole house. Later, the prince broke the law and everyone pleaded for mercy. Shang Yang said to Qin King : "If the law does not work, it will be violated by the superiors." Therefore, the prince practiced the law.
There is a saying on the Chinese Internet that India is a mess because it lacks an Qin Shihuang , but from the actual situation, there are so many things they lack.
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