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LUCKNOW
Feb. 19, 2012. (UPSS).
At least
128 of the 360 candidates for the sixth
round of Uttar Pradesh assembly polls to
be held on February 28 have criminal
background. This is 36 percent of the
total and is much higher than 27 percent
of candidates having criminal background
in the last assembly polls.About 46
percent of the candidates of the
Samajwadi Party (SP) have pending
criminal cases, the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) 45 percent, the ruling
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 29 percent and
the Congress 47 percent.
Out of
the 128 candidates with declared
criminal cases, 52 are facing trials in
cases like murder, attempt to murder,
kidnapping, rape, robbery and extortion.
The SP has 15, the BJP has eight, the
BSP has seven and the Congress has five
such candidates.Man Veer Singh of the
Janata Dal-United, contesting from Jewar
constituency, has declared the maximum
number of 31 criminal cases. Of these,
14 are related to murder.
Another
interesting aspect is that 210
candidates (about 58 percent of the
total) are billionaires. The number of
billionaires in the fray has also grown
this time over the 2007 election. Just
22 percent candidates were billionaires
in 2007.Najir Ahmed of the Congress from
Agra South constituency is the richest
with assets worth Rs.141.39 crore,
followed by Vinod Kumar of the BSP from
Debai constituency with Rs.45.19 crore
and Mahesh Kumar Sharma of the BJP from
Noida constituency with assets worth
Rs.37.45 crore.
Phase VI
of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2012
will be held on 28th Feb (Tuesday). It's
the biggest poll phase in the 7 phases
as it features 68 assembly
constituencies. The constituencies of
Uttar Pradesh that go to polls on 25th
Feb in the 6th phase are from Western
UP, regions which border Uttarakhand,
Haryana and Delhi. RLD is a strong
contender in this region. |
