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NEW DELHI: Two hundred and thirteen candidates contesting in the first phase of Lok Sabha election have declared criminal cases against them including those relating to murder, crimes against women, and kidnapping, among other serious offences.

30 out of 83 (36%) BJP candidates and 35 out of 83 (42%) Congress candidates have admitted that they have criminal cases filed against them.

Congress also has a larger proportion of candidates with serious criminal offences against them. 27% of Congress candidates have serious cases against them while 19% of BJP candidates are in a similar soup.

For YSR Congress, BSP, TDP and TRS, the percentage is 40, 13, 8 and 18 respectively.

The data is based on a report by the National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) in which the affidavits of 1266 out of 1279 candidates, who are contesting in the first phase were analysed.

The affidavits of 13 candidates have not been analysed due to unavailability of their properly scanned and complete affidavits.

According to the report, 12% out of 1266 have declared serious criminal cases against themselves, 12% are convicted criminals, 10 candidates have declared cases related to murder (IPC Section 302) against themselves.



Twenty five candidates have declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC Section 307) against themselves, four have declared cases related to kidnapping, 16 have declared cases related to crime against women and 12 have declared cases related to hate speech against themselves.

Of the 91 constituencies going to polls on April 11, 37 are red alert constituencies, which means three or more candidates contesting the polls have declared criminal cases against themselves.

91 constituencies will vote in the first phase of national election, which will be held on April 11.

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