Today, 25% of the legislators are in the Indian National Parliament are people accused of serious crimes like rape, murder, extortion, kidnapping, and so on. One quarter of the legislators

are out of that category. In some state governments, like in Bihar, it's 50% of the legislators.

So the nexus between crime and politics has grown. And the reason I'm pessimistic is that this is a bad equilibrium.

In other words, this is in no one's interest to change this. The efforts to reduce corruption,

to reduce the criminality in politics have been going on for the last 30, 40 years.

But no one is willing to do it.

Why would I do it if I think that you will not do it?

And so the bad equilibrium continues.

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