New Delhi: PCI Chief Justice Markandey Katju believes that 90 percent of Indians vote on Caste Lines, the root cause behind lots of criminals in Politics.
“When they go to vote, 90 per cent of the people don’t see the merit of the candidate but take a decision only on the basis of caste. And not only the illiterate, I am talking of the educated,” he said.
Recalling of his own experience in the high court, Katju said that even lawyers would vote on caste lines. “I don’t blame the uneducated, but am talking of the educated people. Professors of physics department, head of department….would vote as per caste. How backward your country is,” he said.
The PCI chairperson said that there were so many people of criminal background who get elected because people voted for them if they belonged to the same caste rather than going by merit.
He said that when the country got independence, the far sighted founding fathers adopted a Constitution based on a western model. “The aim of the Constitution makers was to pull up society from its backwardness, from its feudalism and lift it up into the modern industrial age,” he said.
He said that though this idea succeeded with industry coming up and the country progressing but midaway the feudal elements took over with the result that people voted on caste lines.
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90 percent of Indians are biased towards Caste while Voting
New Delhi: PCI Chief Justice Markandey Katju believes that 90 percent of Indians vote on Caste Lines, the root cause behind lots of criminals in Politics.
“When they go to vote, 90 per cent of the people don’t see the merit of the candidate but take a decision only on the basis of caste. And not only the illiterate, I am talking of the educated,” he said.
Recalling of his own experience in the high court, Katju said that even lawyers would vote on caste lines. “I don’t blame the uneducated, but am talking of the educated people. Professors of physics department, head of department….would vote as per caste. How backward your country is,” he said.
The PCI chairperson said that there were so many people of criminal background who get elected because people voted for them if they belonged to the same caste rather than going by merit.
He said that when the country got independence, the far sighted founding fathers adopted a Constitution based on a western model. “The aim of the Constitution makers was to pull up society from its backwardness, from its feudalism and lift it up into the modern industrial age,” he said.
He said that though this idea succeeded with industry coming up and the country progressing but midaway the feudal elements took over with the result that people voted on caste lines.
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