Question

How can we reform political parties and its leaders

Answer 1

Some measures taken by the government to reform political parties have been :  

(i) Anti-defection law, which states that if any sitting MLA or MP changes his party, he will lose his seat in the legislature.  

(ii) It is mandatory now for every candidate to furnish all details related to the assets, criminal cases pending.  

(iii) Election Commission has made it mandatory for parties to hold regular elections a file income tax.  

(iv) Recent judgement by Supreme Court that disqualifies convicted MP's and MLA's who have sentenced to more than two years of imprisonment by the lower court and whose appeal against their conviction is pending and is debarred from contesting elections is considered to be the landmark decision by the apex court to clean the system.  

Other suggestions for reforms :  

(i) The financial accounts of the parties must be audited, this will decrease the role of private big business house donors.  

(ii) State funding of political parties must be done to meet their election expenditure.  

(iii) The accounts must be made available to public'  

(iv) Parties must come under the ambit of Right to information to increase transparency in the system.  

(v) Common people must be encouraged to give donations to parties and such citizens must be exempted from income tax.  

(vi) Parties must encourage inner-party democracy, have regular elections.  

(vii)They must encourage participation of women.

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Answer 2

Five measures/suggestions to reform political parties are:

A Law should be made to regulate the internal affairs of political parties .It should be made compulsory for the political parties to maintain registers of its members.ToTollow its own constitution.To hold open elections to the highest post.It should be made mandatory for all political parties to give a minimum number of tickets, about l/3rd to women candidates.There should be a quota for women in the decision making bodies of the party.There should be state funding of election. The government should give parties money to support their election expenses.People can put pressure on political parties in various ways through petitions, publicity and agitations.Ordinary citizens, pressure groups and movements and the media can play an important role in this.Minimum qualification should be high school pass.

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