The Telugu Desam Party on Sunday said existing laws need to be comprehensively amended to bar economic criminals and other offenders from politics. “Economic criminals, other criminals and those who became super rich through black money have become a major threat to democracy. The laws should be comprehensively amended to bar such elements and ensure they have no place in politics,” TDP said in its political resolution adopted on the final day of its three-day annual conclave ‘Mahanadu’, at Tirupati.
“Lack of government control in the past over black money has led to the deterioration of the country’s economic situation. The unbridled corruption encouraged by the Congress is ruining the country’s economy and threatening the democracy,” the resolution said.
“Money laundering to countries known as tax havens has increased as economic offenders breached all laws. Such offenders joined hands with other criminals and set up political parties and emerged as a threat to democracy,” it said.