Our Political System is designed to Augment Corruption
Can our (Indian) political system transform into providing good governance and development rather than augmenting corruption? Political parties across the world in any democracy have a difficult job in hand. They have to win the next election at whatever cost. The incentive for the politician and political parties is to win the next election and cling on to that power till whatever time possible. In a democratic set up like India, this task is very difficult, because of the sheer size of the country, number of voters and all other complexity of region, religion, language, cast, etc. So, to win the next election the politicians have to be either very strong financially (such as business owners or backed financial by strong business houses) or a such a famous and honest leader that the voters will not think twice before choosing him/her for the next term. The second part is very difficult to achieve, because India as a country ranks very low on the Corruption Perception Index for dec