Expressing concern over the Union Cabinet move to bring in an ordinance protecting convicted lawmakers from immediate disqualification from legislatures, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind today asked the government to take hard decisions.
Condemning the "criminalisation" of politics and involvement of tainted persons in the administration, it termed the trend devastating for the country.
"It is unfortunate that even 65 years after Independence, we could not produce people of high moral values to run the country - people who can be trusted by the masses," said Nusrat Ali, Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.
Saying it may be was a compulsion for political parties to maintain links with tainted people, Ali said "this is the reason why such tainted people are in good numbers in many political parties".
"It is the need of the hour for political parties to take some hard decisions and get rid of the filth and the country could get good people as legislators," Ali added.
