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October 29, 2004

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Politicians often get a bad rap, commonly putting up with the cliche "they're all crooks." Turns out in India it's well deserved. Almost a quarter of India's 545 national MPs face criminal charges including rape, murder and extortion. That's only national MPs and only criminal cases. It must make the police's job easy, knowing where to find the usual suspects.

 posted by Simon on 10.29.04 at 10:31 AM in the




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India: world's largest "democracy"

This is the precise reason why republican government is superior: damage control.

 posted by: Chase on 10.29.04 at 01:38 PM [permalink]




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