Abu-Salem to contest UP elections.

It won't be the first or the last time that an underworld don would be fighting elections from the prison but surely criminalisation of politics can never get bigger than this, unless Dawood decides one fine day to come back to India and seek to fight his way to the post of the PM. It's a different thing whether Salem would really be allowed by the EC and the courts to fight the elections but the fact that the person with his background has the audacity to seek such a mandate is no less alarming. This goes on to show how easy these people think it is to go scot free in this nation after commiting the most henious of the crimes and how deep is the rot in the political system of our country.

Going by the record that criminals have set in the Indian political system and considering the ground realities in the badlands of UP where he is speculated to be interested in - Mubarakpur is Azamgarh- and the folk hero status he enjoys in Azamgarh, If and when Salem tries his luck at the elections I am sure he would win. Who's next?

---Asif