India’s parliamentarians increasingly embody the qualities required to acquire power rather than the skills needed to wield it for the common good. Many cynics regard democracy in India as a process that has given free rein to criminals and corrupt cops, opportunists and fixers, murderous musclemen and grasping middlemen, kickback-making politicos and bribe-taking bureaucrats, mafia dons and private armies, caste activists and religious extremists.
印度议会正日益沦为攫取权力的工具，而不是为人民服务的途径。许多质疑者指出，印度民主程序让犯罪分子和腐败分子，让投机者和调停人、凶残的打手和贪婪的掮客、收受回扣的政客贪污受贿的官僚、黑帮老大和私人武装、种姓分子和宗教极端分子如鱼得水。