Exactly. At one level, the Indian political system is a politician-criminal nexus. The politicians are supported by money flowing in from shady systems, the pol

Exactly. At one level, the Indian political system is a politician-criminal nexus. The politicians are supported by money flowing in from shady systems, the politicians allow shady systems to run and use the money to win elections. Rinse and repeat. Then there are some variations of these - e.g. the politician and criminal is the same person or in the same family, the criminal also does some legit work, the criminal does mostly legit work and lot of it is goverment projects or projects running on tax money (which are done badly or subcontracted and money flows back partly as kick-backs). This cycle is hard to break unless some serious reforms are brought it, but then why would the politicians break the very system which brings them so much power and money.