Indian Political Parties are full of people with a criminal past with some of them being history sheeters fighting numerous case of grievous crimes like murder,rape etc.Numerous reports have come out showing that a large percentage of India’s members of parliament are people with a criminal past and present.Despite the Anna Hazare led Lokpal agitation against corruption and general angst against the political classes,nothing has changed.One of India’s 2 national parties the BJP has fallen into controversy for inducting a politician caught in a massive health scandal and accused of being complicit in killing of 2 senior health bureaucrats.But this is not specific to a single political party but runs across party lines.

If you do a rational and factural analysis why political parties in India love thse mafiosos and gangsters you can see that

1) These gangsters win elections using their muscle and money power which is the most important thing in winning power of political parties.Who cares if you win by hook or crook

2) The first past the post system means that a person might win with less than 20% of the votes.This means that gangsters can win a small percentage through intimidation

3) In India, election wins are still won by caste and ethnic identities so criminals can win by winning the support of their caste

4) Gangsters can intimidate good candidates from running away using violence

With no pressure to change ,political parties continue to brazenly induct criminal and history sheeters.This will unlikely change till the Indian electorate rejects them