1. Electoral Reforms
Team:
Prathamesh Amrutkar
Abhiroop Bhadra
Gopal Krishna
Gopi Krishna
Nishit Sangomla
Fairness at Play
Introducing Electoral
reforms to reduce the
influence of money
and muscle power in
politics

2. Whom do we vote
for?
1,460 sitting
MP’s and MLA’s
with criminal
background
688 of them
have serious
criminal
cases
162 out of
543 Lok
sabha MP’s
have
criminal
cases
1258 sitting
MLA’s have
criminal
cases
against
them
55 out of 74
MLA’s of the
Jharkhand
2009
assembly
had criminal
cases
58% of
Bihar’s MLA’s
have
criminal
cases
against
them
48% of U.P.
MLA’s have
criminal
cases
against
them
82% of MP’s and MLA’s of Mukti Morcha
have criminal cases against them
64% of MP’s and
MLA’s of RJD
have criminal
cases against
them
MP's with
criminal
charges
MP's
without
criminal
charges

3. Why do such people
get elected?
 Muscle Power: We have seen Previously how many of the elected representatives
are involved in criminal activities and these tend to use their power during elections to
influence people.
 Money: The richer candidates use their wealth to lure voters to vote for them this trend
is very much common in all the states of India. People don’t understand the irony that it
is just a little part of their own wealth which the candidate utilizes to again rob them of
what was actually theirs.
 Lack of Awareness amongst voters: Voters do not look for the background and
character of an individual candidate but look at the party standing behind them.
Loyalty to a party being the main culprit here
 Not exercising your right to vote: The youth and most of the educated class who
could actually make a good choice among candidates do not exercise their right to
vote.
So What can we do?

4.  A given set of questions
will be made by a team
under the guidance of
Chief Election Officer
 These questions will be
disclosed to the public 24
hours before the election
day
 The questions will be
selected such that it will
have both positive and
negative answers. This will
keep a check on the
influence the candidates
may have on the voters.
 50% weightage will be
given to the votes casted
and 50% to these
questions.
To Reduce the
influence of
Muscle Power
Solution:3 Questions

5.  3 out of the list of questions
will be selected and given
to the voters
 The E.V.M remains same
but the voter will have to
press the button 4 times
instead of 1.
 Each time a question will
be asked the voter has to
chose a candidate who is
best suitable as the answer
 Examples for questions
• Which of the candidates has
done social service in the past
in that area irrespective of
having been elected or not?
 The questions will be asked
in 3 languages English,
Hindi and the respective
Regional language
To Reduce
influence of
Muscle Power
Solution: 3 Questions

6.  Each and every
candidate has to make a
deposit of a certain % of
his declared assets
 The amount collected will
be divided equally
among all the candidates
contesting in the
elections in that given
constituency.
 Only this money will be
utilized for campaigning
 To keep a check on the
process bills have to be
submitted by the
candidates to election
commission
 If any discrepancies are
found the candidate is
made to withdraw his
candidature.
To Reduce the
influence of
Money
Solution: Sharing

7.  An independent
organization should be
constituted which will be
answerable only to the
Governor of States or the
President of India
 This organization will
collect information about
all the candidates and
post it on their website
 The information will also
be shared through
posters and pamphlets in
each and every
constituency about their
respective candidates
 This will help us in
creating awareness
about the candidates
amongst voters
To create
Awareness
Solution: A-Team

8.  We as a Team came up
with many ideas that could
be implemented like 1)
Voting will validate your
passport 2) Only when you
vote you will be entitled to
benefits given by the
government 3) The holiday
given on the election day
will be a holiday only when
you show you have made
good use of it i.e. voted.
 Then we thought if we
follow any of the three
plans stated above though
we would have got people
to come out and vote but
we would have
contradicted the very idea
of freedom laid down by
our freedom fighters.
To increase the
percentage of
voting
Solution:

9. Conclusion:
 We feel that unless the Elected representatives are actually
people’s representatives also the other reforms will not be achieved
because these are the people who pass the bills in the end
 We can make a 100 ppt’s, share a picture about patriotism a 1000
times on Facebook, update our status on every Independence day
and Republic Day but we will never be able to give back to our
country what it deserves unless and until we become a part of the
system
 We agree that our system is a corrupted one but it is not the one
that cannot be changed, Be the change you want to be
 2014 General elections is a revolution and we the revolutionaries
we have seen through episodes like the Delhi Gang rape case and
the Anna hazzare movement against corruption that if given a
chance we can get united and fight for a cause we believe in
 This is the day we were waiting for, It is high time we take the place
for which we were destined for

10. “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.
You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an
act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a
mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a
personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen
inside first.”

11. Acknowledgements:
This power point presentation is part of a
collaborative work of a team of 5 enthusiastic
students
We would like to thank CAG and Manthan for
providing us with this opportunity and platform
to showcase our ideas
Last but not the least we would like to show our
appreciation for the valuable inputs provided by
our friends which helped in evolution of the ideas

12. Thank You
Thank You