Maybe our politicians are not so bad

Take 'bad' in the sense of evil, as ours are truly bad representatives.

In India there appears to be a relatively high number of bad-in-the-sense-of-evil politicians.  It is likely that India has many more government representatives as their population is triple ours, but perhaps not.  Anyway here are some numbers from a report put together by an NGO.  Note that India uses the terms MLA for state-level assemblies and MP for members of parliament.Note also that the report covers the past five years:

• 6 MLAs had charges of rape against them at the time of their election
• 36 MLAs have charges of crimes against women including assault and insulting the modesty of a woman
• 2 MPs have charges against them of using cruelty to outrage a woman's modesty
• 27 candidates for state elections are accused with raping women
• 260 candidates for state elections are accused of crimes against women

The report focused on crimes against women.  Other crimes of which the politicians have been accused include assault, murder (one man had 8 charges of attempted murder), defiling a place of worship, promoting enmity between different groups, rioting and dacoity (banditry). Many of these crimes also included violence against women.