Jammu, Feb. 21 -- Politics in general is a dirty game but the elections in India are dirtier and murkier. The electoral politics in the country seems to be the last refuge of the scoundrel and it is the need of the hour to purge and cleanse the elections as a first priority. First two, three general elections in India after independence were clean and there were no or very few cases of criminal elements in these elections and baring very few cases of criminal cases the elections where free and clean. With the passage of the time when democracy became mature and dynamic, the criminalisation of politics became bane of our electoral democracy. In our multi-party system there is no political party which can claim to be free from criminal elemen...