Why do our leaders and others do like this?

Even to run a small shop in India, you need politicians backing.

To correct you, officer is caught on receiving money, if he is receiving money without any political backing.

Britain made history when for the first time, the leaders from the three mainstream political parties debated in front of a studio audience and was also televised live. Such debates have become a regular feature in the US where this tradition started with the historic debate between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon way back in 1960. Other countries to have tried this include France, New Zealand, Australia and Iran.

The importance of such cannot be overstated. Firstly, these debates provide a direct platform to leaders to directly reach out their target audience. These leaders otherwise usually spend crores on traveling around the country and in organizing rallies which is mainly attended by party loyalists and not ordinary people.

The present spending limit for candidates is Rs 25 lakhs in Parliamentary elections and Rs 10 lakhs in Assembly elections. How many Indians can spare such large sums of money. More importantly, once they get elected, wouldn't they be motivated to get return on investment. India does not have open and clean system to raise funds for political parties like that of the US. Thus such debates can create a level playing field by reducing the role of money power in elections.

Secondly, such televised debates can lower the power of media-houses. Media houses and Journalists are universally known to have their own biases and often cover stories favorably.

Additionally, a major issue plaguing Indian media today is the rising phenomenon of paid news. It has been widely reported in the international media and it includes the big media houses as well. For e.g., a 2004 article in Asia Times Online claims that even Times of India sells its space for paid coverage (I can't comment on its authenticity).

In the recent Maharashtra elections, three newspapers that compete with each other, Lokmat, Pudhari and Maharashtra Times, carried the same piece, with the same picture and headline on Ashok Chavan. There are people on record saying that representatives of the Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar, Punjab Kesri, Eenadu asked for money.

In such a corrupt environment, it is important to reduce money power and create a level playing field which is exactly what these debates tend to do.

We proudly call ourselves the World's Largest Democracy. But there other like Arundhati Roy who call India's democracy a fake democracy. The reality is somewhere in the middle. We only have pockets of Democracy. Even after 62 years of independence, democracy has not reached every part of the country.

We must bring democracy to every doorstep and Election Debates are a great way to achieve this because it gives a voice to everyone.

If we strengthen our democracy, development will follow. This new democracy can take on anyone including Naxals. Democracy is for the people, by the people and of the people.Our forefathers fought hard so that we enjoy basic rights. It is now our turn to fight their unfinished battles. It is now time that the Indian Civil Society shun its ignorance and demand a level playing field. It is time that our leader must face the music.

Would love to see a debate between Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi in 2014.

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They believe in the saying "Do as i say, not as i do!" These Egomaniacs that run the country have way too much power and money to bring down the individual. Unless the whole population unites and stands up to the government this sort of thing will keep happening.

PM cannot control a cabinet, without letting these MPs eat public money.

If you catch sharat pawar, the whole govt will come down, if you make chidambaram responsible for Telangana issue which resulted in more than 100 dead, who will do the all the jobs for sonia as she wishes, rest are illiterate dumb a(((ses.

this is a kleptocracy.

to make BCCI and IPL loot insignificant, medical coincil of india chief has been reported caught with

Rs.1800 crores cash, 1500 kg gold jwells etc.,