Out of 92 candidates in Phase II of Manipur Legislative Assembly Elections, around 57% are ‘Millionaires’, 16 candidates (17%) have criminal cases against them. ) while 14 candidates (15%) have serious criminal cases against them. A report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) gave this information on Friday.
Big disclosure in ADR report
According to an earlier report by ADR, of the 173 candidates contesting in the first phase of Manipur elections, more than 21% have criminal cases and 16% have serious criminal cases while 53% have serious criminal cases. are ‘millionaires’. According to the ADR report, it has analyzed the self-affidavits of 92 candidates, the average assets per candidate contesting in the second phase elections is Rs 2.61 crore.
Many candidates are millionaires
Out of 52 ‘crorepati’ (57%) candidates, 10 candidates (11%) have assets of Rs 5 crore and above. The ADR report states that the role of money power in our elections is evident from the fact that all major political parties give tickets to wealthy candidates. It said the major parties included four out of 10 candidates from the Janata Dal (United) (40%), four out of 18 candidates from the Congress (22%), 2 out of 11 candidates from the National People’s Party (18). %) and two (9%) out of 22 BJP candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
What does the educational qualification figure say?
According to the ADR analysis, four out of 10 candidates from JD (United) (40%), four out of 18 Congress candidates (22%), one out of 11 candidates from NPP (9%) and BJP Out of 22 candidates (5%) have declared serious criminal cases against themselves. Three candidates have cases related to crime against women and one of them has been declared as a case related to rape (IPC Section-376). The ADR report states that 19 candidates (21%) have declared their educational qualifications between 8th and 12th standard while 72 candidates (78%) have declared their educational qualification as graduation or above. is of. Let us inform that a candidate is also a diploma holder.
Counting of votes will be held on March 10
Overall nine (10%) candidates have declared their age between 25 to 40 years while 66 (72%) candidates have declared their age between 41 to 60 years and 17 (18%) candidates have declared their age between 41 to 60 years. His age has been declared between 61 to 80 years. Let us inform that voting for the 60-seat Manipur Legislative Assembly will be held in two phases on 28 February and 5 March and the counting of votes will be done on 10 March.
