1. Manthan Topic:
Fairness At Play
Team Details:
• Shubham Kumar
• Akshay Kumar
• Naveen K. Meena
• Santosh Kumar
• Kumar Subham
(IIT Delhi)
Introducing electoral reforms to reduce
the influence of money and muscle power
in politics
Paving Ways
TEAM: ROOTS

2. Causes of the problem
Widespread poverty and unemployment
leading to people falling to such cheap tricks
Lack of awareness about the candidates and
strict rules curbing the use of such measures
Lack of proper law and order
implementation to check cheap means
Reasons for selecting a specific cause
Rigging of elections and unfair means lead to
people losing their faith on democracy and a
passive democracy
Any Indian, who wishes to change our
motherland, feels great resistance because
the lack of active governance and passive
nature of representatives, which in turn arises
from unfair elections
Not fully empowered election commission
to keep a vigil watch over the process
The people’s representatives decide the policies that
matter for the future of India, if they are uncapable
of bringing change, the country’s future is doomed

3. Money powered and
criminalization of
elections leads to fake
democracy with people
being left out with no
good choices to choose
Money and muscle
power are basically
synonyms of unfair
elections which cut he
roots of democracy
Money influencing
elections leads to the
circulation of black
money, which in turn is
supported by the
politicians using such
means
Representatives coming
with the help of unfair
means promote
criminalization, and
disturb the law and
order of the area
Growing fear of muscle
power leads to people
fearing their leaders,
thus turning leaders to
dictators
The growing influences
of money driven
elections leads to
scarcity of genuine
leaders/nationalists in
political scenario
worsening the policy
making and key
decisions
Candidates winning
from unfair means are
callous and non-
responsive to people’s
demands and do not
perform their duties
Of the problem

4.  Cash for vote
 Illegal political financing, forming
duplicate bills
 Fake volunteering during election
campaign to show extended support
 Providing “incentives” for coalition
formation
 Threatening opposition candidates to
withdraw electoral nomination
 Barring opposition voters from voting
 Disturbing opposition electoral campaign
15%
16%
3%
14%
62%
analysis of lok sabha elections 2009
candidates with pending criminal cases -1158
candidates with assets of more than Rs.1 crore -1249
Candidates with "Nil" Assets -244
candidates with liabilities of more than Rs.5 lakhs -1056
candidates without PAN -4863
TEAM: ROOTS

5. Implementation
 Constitutional amendment to bring electoral crime
into fast track judiciary
 Strengthening the judicial system to accommodate
the increased cases.
 Discontinuation the members of parliament and
legislative assembly after declaring convicted by
fast track court
To stimulate pending criminal cases against nominated
candidates in order to accomplish section 8(3) of rp act 1951
Stakeholders
 Fast track court
 Election commission
 All candidates for elections
 Members of parliament and legislative
assemblies
Challenges
 Check on fake cases
 Independent functioning of judiciary system
 Setting the time limit for jurisdiction
 Security threat to witnesses, judges and
lawyer
Requirements
 Additional judges and staff allocation for
judicial process.
 Security Forces for Protection of concerned.
 Monetary Allotments for running of the same
FAST TRACK COURTS
TEAM: ROOTS

6. RIGHT TO REJECT
In case of majority of “none of the above’’, reconduct election with fresh
candidates
Implementation
 Providing a none of the above option on
E.V. Machine
 Create awareness about “nota’’
Challenges
 Budget for re-conduction of election
 Probability of getting same result in re-
election
 Political instability
Stakeholders
 Public
 Candidates
 Election commission
Requirements
 Governmental expenses for reelection
 Human resources for reconducting election
TEAM: ROOTS

7. AUDITING OF ACCOUNTS OF POLITICAL PARTIES
Implementation
 Annual verification of political party's
account
 Disclosure of identity of donors who
donate more than 20,000 INR
Challenges
 Opposes by political parties
 Fake bills
 Fare implementation
Stakeholders
 Political parties
 Industrialists
 Election commission
 Public
Requirements:
 Body to keep a check on accuracy of data
 Financer and law and order bodies for
implementation.
TEAM: ROOTS

8. CONDUCTING KNOWLEDGE TEST FOR CANDIDATES
In order to minimize percentage of people who have come on dint of mony and muscle power only
Implementation
 To form a body to design and conduct
the test
 To let the answers be visible on public
domain like print media, government
affairs
 Passing ability to support this in both
the houses
Challenges
 Requiring a huge network for designing
question in diverse country
 Ensuring fare test
 Proper display and reachability of the
solution
Stakeholders
 Candidates
 Voters
 Media
 Conducting bodies
Requirements
 Monetary requirement for test and
display
 Formation of bodies who know the
reasons and atleast major issues
 Proper channels for public display
TEAM: ROOTS

9. PRESIDENTIAL RULE
To check malpractices by locally ruling bodies and other dominant individuals,
to allow independent working of election commission and law and order
Implementation
 Law amendment
 To form supporting bodies for
governors
Stakeholders
 Hon’ president of india
 Bureaucracy of india
 Public
Challenges
 To convince the political parties for
the same
 Ensuring smooth governance at the
time of presidential rule
Requirements
 Bureucracy
 Finances for the governance at the
time of president’s rule.
TEAM: ROOTS

10. SECURITY FOR CANDIDATES
Candidates who dare to contest in election in order to boost their courage to fight against money and muscles
Implementation
 Making stricter rules for electoral crimes
under IPC
 To make police system more accountable for
security of candidates
 Process by which a candidate can apply for
security
Stakeholders
 Candidates
 Bureaucrats
 Law and order governing bodies
Challenges
 High number of candidates in a
particular constituency
 Inefficient and unequipped police
 Lack of sufficient number of security
officers
Requirements
 Security bodies
 A body under election commission to
keep an eye on implementation of
above
TEAM: ROOTS

11. More
Honest/Hardworking
people will get
selected
More care for
people's demands
and problems
Better Governance
Less Criminals
getting Power
Better State of
Law and Order
Less role of
money power
Lesser
circulation of
black money
Better state
of Economy
TEAM: ROOTS

12. References:
* Report on "Ethics in governance" by Administrative Reforms
Commission.
http://arc.gov.in/4threport.pdf
* Analysis of Criminal and Financial Details of MPs by ADR
http://adrindia.org/files/High%20level%20criminal,%20financi
al%20&%20educational%20analysis%20LS%202009.pdf
* Resources/Data made available by "Association of Democratic
Reforms".
http://adrindia.org/
* Rules and Regulations regarding elections made available by
"Election Commission of India".
http://eci.gov.in/eci_main1/index.aspx#
* lnputs on Consultation Paper on "Electoral Reforms" by Law
Commission from "Rajeev Chandrashekhar".
http://www.rajeev.in/rajeev_writes/Electoral_Reforms/june282
013.pdf
TEAM: ROOTS