Corrupt politicians are immune no more

The successful conviction of RJD chief and former railway minister Lalu Prasad, in a 1996 fodder scam case, must be welcomed as a sign that Indian politics could get cleaner in the days to come. The quantum of the sentence will be read out Thursday. But Lalu, under whose reign Bihar's exchequer was looted by a bureaucrat-suppliers' network, will be the first influential politician to be rendered unfit as a parliamentarian thanks to a Supreme Court order that called for immediate disqualification of MPs and MLAs, convicted of any crime that invites a punishment of two years or more. 

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