[India_Vision_2020] Good news:Four criminal-politicians out of election fray, thanks to courts,

Four criminal-politicians out of election fray, thanks to
courts

Tue, 07 Apr 2009


Patna, April 7 (IANS) They are notorious faces. But for the first time in
many years, four criminals-turned-politicians from Bihar will be unable to
contest the Lok Sabha elections. The electoral laws have finally caught up with
them.
Locally known as 'bahubalis' for their muscle power, Rashtriya Janata Dal
(RJD) MPs Pappu Yadav and Mohammed Shahabuddin, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MP
Surajbhan Singh and former Janata Dal-United (JD-U) MP Anand Mohan have been
disallowed by the courts from contesting .
The courts have turned down their plea that their conviction in criminal
cases be suspended so that they can fight the elections. All the four were
convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in different cases.
'It is a rare but positive beginning. It has never happened before that none
of the four is in the fray,' M.P. Gupta, a senior lawyer of the Patna High
Court, told IANS.
Be it the working class or the elite, most people see their absence from the
polls as a positive sign for Bihar and its politics although all four have
managed to put up their wives as candidates.
'It's a right thing that criminals-turned-politicians like Shahabuddin, Pappu
Yadav, Surajbhan and Anand Mohan are being kept away from elections. It will
send a strong message,' said Kamlesh Singh, a government official.
The four are among a dozen politicians, including MPs and legislators, who
have been convicted and sentenced by fast track courts in Bihar after 2005, thus
becoming ineligible to contest.
Any person convicted for a crime and sentenced to more than a two-year-long
jail term cannot fight elections for six years after the completion of his
sentence.
The Patna High Court last week rejected Pappu Yadav's plea to suspend his
conviction in a criminal case and so he can't contest in the April-May Lok Sabha
elections. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by a lower court for murdering
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) legislator Ajit Sarkar in 1998. Yadav
is currently out on bail.
Last month Shahabuddin's election hopes were finally dashed when the Patna
High Court dismissed his plea to suspend his conviction in a criminal
case 

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