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Election candidates mostly graduates or postgraduates
WB: One in 5 candidates faces criminal charge
49 candidates have criminal background
Citizens to keep an eye on Assembly polls (12-05-2003)
138 candidates have criminal background
Criminals rule the roost (06-12-2002)
प. बंगाल मै दागी उम्मीदवार् बढे
Southern pattern attracts Mumbai voters
HC orders poll panel to expose politician with criminal records (04-11-2000)
Gujarat Election Watch Committee (25-10-2002)
Helping the voter choose a 'clean' candidate
ADR launches Gujarat Election Watch
Bengal legislators record 'alarming' increase in assets
Assets of 28 MLAs up 120% since 2006
‘Manifestoes of parties lack clarity on serious issues'
Assets of ministers, MLAs saw big increase in five years
Trinamool's wealth grew twice as fast as CPM’s since 2006 polls
34 candidates in third phase of Bengal polls face criminal charges
‘Kill graft before letting state fund polls’
A wealth of information
Gen-Y checks out netas on the net
22 'criminal' candidates in Bengal final phase poll
People power EC in polls
Political parties get bulk of funds from unnamed donors
260 Bengal candidates face criminal charges
विधायक बनने की जुगत में २६० दागी
राज्यों की विधानसभा फिर दागियों से सराबोर
41% in Kerela and 31% in West Bengal of newly-elected MLAs have criminal cases: Study
71% graduate MLAs in assembly
20 of 126 state MLAs have never filed I-T returns
National Election Watch: 35% MLAs elected in West Bengal carry criminal charges
Midas touch
‘Bengal tops the list of MLAs with criminal cases’
CIC to take decision on disclosure of business interests of RS members
TIME TO MAKE A START
Make MPs' interests in firms public: CIC
Firms with MP stakes under CIC scanner
CIC directs Rajya Sabha to disclose MPs' commercial interests
Selective deflation by Union cabinet
Political parties’ financials to be accessible to public
Rs 16 lakh limit for poll expenses. Only 50 pc spent !
Chandy, VS ‘spent’ only Rs 11 lakh !
Average election spending by MLAs just Rs.9 lakh
MLAs’ poll expenses within limits
Selective deflation by Union cabinet
Many MLAs incur lower election expense than permitted
Pondy MLAs spent about 3 lakh each on elections
P K Basheer tops the list of election spending
‘Transparency’ stumps web-savvy CM
More autonomy for the watchdogs

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