The National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 928 out of 943 candidates, who are contesting in the Lok Sabha Phase 4 for which Polling is scheduled on April 29.
There are 15 candidates who have not been analyzed due to unavailability of their properly scanned and complete affidavits, at the time of making this report.
Candidates with Criminal Cases: 210(23%) out of 928 candidates analysed have declared criminal cases against themselves.
· Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 158(17%) out of 928 candidates analysed have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.
· Candidates with Declared Convicted Cases: 12 candidates have declared convicted cases against themselves.
· Candidates with cases related to Murder: 5 candidates have declared cases related to murder (IPC Section -302) against themselves.
Candidates with cases related to Attempt to Murder: 24 candidates have declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC Section 307) against themselves.
· Candidates with cases related to Kidnapping: 4 candidates have declared cases related to kidnapping such kidnapping for ransom, etc. (IPC Section-364A), kidnapping (IPC Section-363), Kidnapping or abducting with an intent secretly and wrongfully confine person (IPC Section-365) etc, against themselves.
· Candidates with cases related to Crime Against Women: 21 candidates have declared cases related to crime against women such as assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty (IPC Section-354), husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty (IPC Section-498A) etc., against themselves.
· Candidates with cases related to Hate Speech: 16 candidates have declared cases related to hate speech against themselves.
· Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 25(44%) out of 57 candidates from BJP, 18(32%) out of 57 candidates from INC, 11(20%) out of 54 candidates from BSP, 12(57%) out of 21 candidates analysed from SHS, and 60(17%) out of 345 independent candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.
· Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 20(35%) out of 57 candidates from BJP, 9(16%) out of 57 candidates from INC, 10(19%) out of 54 candidates from BSP, 9(43%) out of 21 candidates analysed from SHS, and 45(13%) out of 345 independent candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.
· Red Alert Constituencies*: 37 out of 71 constituencies are red alert constituencies. Red alert constituencies are those constituencies where 3 or more contesting candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.
Financial Background
· Crorepati Candidates: There are 306(33%) candidates who have assets worth Rs. 1 crore and more.
· Party wise Crorepati Candidates: Among the major parties 50(88%) out of 57 candidates from INC, 50(88%) out of 57 candidates from BJP, 20(37%) out of 54 candidates from BSP, 13(62%) out of 21 candidates from SHS and 8(80%) out of 10 candidates from SP have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.
· Average assets: The average asset per candidate contesting in the Lok Sabha Phase 4 election is Rs. 4.53 crores.
· Party wise average assets: Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 57 BJP candidates is Rs. 13.63 crores, 57 INC candidates is Rs 29.03 crores, 54 BSP candidates have average assets of Rs 2.69 crores, and 21 SHS candidates have average assets of Rs 17.85 crores
High asset candidates: The details of the top 3 candidates with the highest assets are given below :
