NEW DELHI: Stressing the need to check criminalisation of politics and corruption, Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekawat on Wednesday asked Governors to consider how to tackle the problem and remove deficiencies in the present system.

Addressing the Governors conference here, he said that none of them talked about it. `Probably this malaise has vanished from all the States" he said adding that in reality the situation was something else.

He said the maladies had given rise to increased crimes in society, and suggested that everyone consider how many cases of corruption had been investigated properly and the guilty punished. He said taking a re-look would require reforms both in the judicial system and the tightening of laws.

Mr. Shekhawat pointed out that there was a debate in the Rajya Sabha and some concrete suggestions were offered on which action should be taken at the earliest.

He also touched upon the internal security situation as elaborated by the Defence and the Home Ministers.

He recalled that at a similar conference earlier, the then Prime Minister and then Home Minister had raised the problems created by the presence of illegal migrants from Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The problem, he stressed, was persisting and growing.

Mr. Shekhawat also touched upon issues such as inter-linking of rivers, education, especially the role of Governors in institutions of higher learning, primary health care, population policy, need to combat HIV/AIDS and better implementation of rural development and poverty alleviation programmes that have direct bearing on the vast multitude of people in the country.

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