It refers to Haryana Chief Minister writing to central government for legislating bill for some minimum educational qualification to contest elections for Parliament and state-legislatures. Haryana has already implemented such norms for Panchayat elections. Prime Minister should accept welcome recommendation by Haryana Chief Minister. When minimum educational-norms are necessary for all others getting paid from public-exchequers, legislatures also getting pay and perks from public-exchequers must also have some such norms especially when their important assignment is law-making. Ideally a special post-graduate course can be designed, which may provide degrees to be a poll-contestant.
Moreover for propagating small-family norms in true practice, persons with more than two children should not be allowed to contest elections. It should be compulsory for political parties to give at least one-third party tickets to women in every such state where these are contesting elections. To effectively check dynastic-politics and to curb life-long ambitions of politicians, some upper-age limit of say 65 years may be fixed to contest direct elections. Experienced persons if needed in central ministry can be made members of Rajya Sabha.
Madhu Agrawal
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