There is this term 'emotional investment' : the amount of feeling in favour of someone. As an example: we can say 'A mother has a high emotional investment in her child.' because she loves her child, no matter what. So To the mother, Her child is the most honest, sincere and good natured kid in the world. It would be difficult to convince her other wise even with proof.
Emotional investment can also be seen in nationalism - 'We want India to win even regardless whether other side is Bangladesh or Australia.' We won't accept or it would be difficult to make us consider the idea that may be the other side may be better than India. Even if we do consider, we may not give the other team players deserved credit.
Emotional investment can also be high in political parties. One says I am a fan of Narendra Modi. Rest are thieves., other says I am a fan of Arvind Kejriwal. Rest are thieves.
It seems that in a zeal to see our favourite party win in elections, we may choose to ignore looking carefully at records of all the candidates (even the party we don't like) in the fray.
I do not seek to change anyone's voting preferences but we need to look at all candidates objectively and take care that in our zeal for our favourite political party we don't vote in criminals to run our country kyonki Criminals ki ek hi party hoti hain :|
Here is the official link to check your candidate's affidavit on his criminal record : affidavitarchive.nic.in
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