Are megalomaniac singles better than looting families?

As Indians prepare to choose the next government, R Sharma pointed out that in a country that "orchestrates 10 million weddings a year, it is remarkable that the 2019 election battle will be decided largely by single leaders". "Modi has of course built his career on ridiculing the rival Congress and its reigning dynasty" and "yet the Gandhis are now headed by Rahul" who "is still unmarried". When asked who should be the next prime minister "Modi, Rahul, Mamata, and Mayawati top the list". All are single. Why do people prefer singles? Because there is no public funding of elections, "The more cash flows under the table, the more gets diverted into private pockets, stoking public disgust." So lucrative is an elections victory that there are expected to be "10,000 candidates for 545 seats, and more than 500 political parties in the fray", wrote A Ranade. Of all the members of the Lok Sabha, 82% "have declared wealth of more than Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million)".  How clean are the single politicians? Ms Mayawati has accumulated enormous wealth, apparently given by her followers out of love. Even her brother has increased his wealth to Rs 13.16 billion. In 2011, Wikileaks reported that she sent a private jet to Mumbai to bring a pair sandals she had left behind. Mamata Banerjee makes a virtue of her apparent lack of wealth, "still living in her ancestral home in the Kolkata neighborhood of Kalighat, its dilapidated roof and rotting bamboo beams offering public testimony to the money not spent on renovations". However, she "has built a political organisation that replicates the old Communist penetration of every locality and every institution in the state", wrote S Dasgupta. "Some 50 BJP activists have been killed in political violence in last summer's violent Panchayat polls in which some 30 percent of the seats were won by the TMC without contest". TMC is Banerjee's party. What about Prime Minister Modi? Just like others before him, Modi is accused of using the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to harass opposition politicians. When CBI officials went to question Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar regarding a chit fund scam, local police arrested them and questioned them for 2 hours. Banerjee came to power through street protests, using "a rapacious army of violent, poorly educated and extortionist youngsters. They had no patience for job-creating factories to grow; instead they'd force the factory manager to buy from them inferior construction material, at twice the market price," wrote S Mitra. Modi is despised in Tamil Nadu. The BJP has allied with AIADMK, the party of Jayalalithaa, but the CBI has raided houses of its chief secretary and also the director general of the police to show its power through intimidation. Rahul Gandhi has no new idea except the old Congress policy of more handouts. Looting families or megalomaniac singles, not a very good choice, is it?