As part of its National Election Watch campaign, Association for Democratic Reforms obtained the affidavits of 19 of these 24 filed in previous elections and found that four have criminal records.
Ruhi Tewari, Livemint.com, Thu, Mar 5 2009
New Delhi: The ruling Congress party, which heads the United Progressive Alliance, or UPA, government at the Centre, has given tickets to at least four candidates with criminal backgrounds on the list of 24 candidates for Uttar Pradesh it declared on 4 March for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, according to the Association for Democratic Reforms, or ADR, an Ahmedabad-based non-political group.
