Show me a person who says that corruption should be encouraged. Ask the most corrupt person about corruption, he will be the first person to tell you in detail the adverse effects of corruption. You ask a politician about the practice of corruption and he will tell you how his opponent tried to rig his election success through corrupt means. By chance, the person who had won the election had lost, and you ask him about his defeat, he would immediately tell you the corrupt practice played by his opponent in rigging the election. That means both had resorted to corrupt practices. You go and ask the voter and ask him whether he had been bribed, he would say that though the candidate tried to bribe him, he did not succumb to the same. That means even the voter is corrupt. This shows that a corrupt electorate tries to select or elect a candidate who is corrupt and then the voter expects the candidate after getting elected to control corruption. It is for the people to decide whether under such a situation, can corruption be controlled or eradicated.
Day by day number of  people exercising their inalienable right to vote is shrinking. Last month, Bangalore , a metro city of India which is also called a silicon city and a ‘happening’ city, only about 49% exercised their vote. The opposition parties cried foul and accused the ruling party which won the election with a very comfortable majority of corrupt practices. They said that the voters were bribed and those who were lured to the polling station through corrupt means only voted.. These are only unproven allegations, but one has to ponder over the same.
In India of late one sees by and large middle class and rich people
have started avoiding going to the polling booth. Perhaps they are not used to stand in a que along with all and sundry. Further they many a time refuse to get down from their cars. Very rarely these days we find rich and novo rich standing in a que to vote. They are the people who later on cry hoarse against corruption in seminars and other places. One should make a study of voting pattern in India and it will definitely show that by and large only a particular class of people go to vote. They are people belonging to BPL or poor classes. Many of them are illiterate and uneducated. One wonders whether they are conscious of their right to vote. A further study might show how they were persuaded to vote.
Unless we bring radical change in the voting system and get the educated middle class  to vote at the elections, we will not be able to get competent people as our representatives to eradicate corruption. As Edmund Burke said “All that’s necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.â€