From the archive record
The confessions made by the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's henchman Bablu Srivastava who had been nabbed by police with the CBI probe still on the Chandra Swami saga brought onto the national agenda the issue of criminalisation of politics. Earlier in the year the Vora committee report which had gone into the nexus between criminals and politicians was tabled in parliament but it was the gruesome murder of Nana Sahni allegedly by her husband and former Delhi Youth congress office bearers Susheela Sharma which became a symbol and a cry for a purge against criminal elements infiltrating political parties. While politicians and other newsmakers had their ups and downs for the Chief Election Commissioner. Subramanian Swamy who serves as a member of Parliament says that when there is a three