Assembly results in Jharkhand have ushered in the usual mixture of friends and relatives of scamsters, unproven murderers and other assorted thugs. Three reasons come to mind as to why people would vote for a bin full of garbage. The first is that people in the state are stupid and illiterate and have voted for caste and tribe without giving any thought to consequences. The second is that people were threatened or bribed with cash, hooch and clothes to vote for them and the ones with the most black money and guns i.e. the worst scoundrels won. Probably a combination of these two reasons worked on the ground again proving that elections in India are a sham. The third reason is the scariest. It is possible that after careful and informed judgement the voters thought that these are the least villainous of all the scoundrels on offer. This is probably also what happened in the general elections in May, 2009. If that is the case we do not need China or Pakistan. India is doomed by the garbage it elects.