Bihar polls: 25% of candidates have criminal record
Prabhakar Kumar , CNN-IBN
Posted on Oct 07, 2010 at 09:27 | Updated Oct 07, 2010
Patna: With Bihar elections just around the corner, the candidates who are finding support by the parties, are not as clean and crime-free as the party leaders are claiming.
According to National Election Watch, almost 25 per cent of the candidates have criminal cases registered against them.
One is not known by what he preaches but what he practices. If this parameter is applied to politicians of Bihar, none of them will come out clean. Be it Lalu, Nitish or Paswan, they all claim to have a crime-free Bihar, on top of their agenda and interestingly all three have fielded quite a few criminals on their party tickets.
These numbers and percentage would shoot upwards only as more names would be announced in coming days.
Meanwhile, nomination papers of 31 of 711 candidates who have filed their papers for 47 seats going to polls in the first phase in Bihar were rejected on technical grounds, an election official said.
Additional Chief Electoral Officer Kumar Anshumali told reporters that nomination of candidates of the major political parties have been found in order.
Thursday is the last date for withdrawal of candidature for the first phase.
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