Maharashtra polls: Number of rich candidates increases | Association for Democratic Reforms

Source:

Live Mint

http://www.livemint.com/Politics/NnvFWVh8fSfJ2mv0DR26jO/Maharashtra-polls-Number-of-rich-candidates-increases.html

Date:

11.10.2014

City:

Mumbai

While 52% of candidates from these parties were worth Rs.1 crore or more in the 2009 assembly elections, this time 73% candidates of the candidates are so-called crorepatis

Mumbai: New data released by the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) suggests candidates of the five prominent parties—Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena(MNS)— are becoming richer. While 52% of candidates from these parties were worth Rs.1 crore or more in the 2009 assembly elections, this time 73% candidates of the candidates are so-called crorepatis. The overall percentage of such candidates in the assembly elections was at 47%. The data also show that the percentage of candidates with criminal backgrounds has come down slightly. Fifty percent of the candidates fielded by the five prominent parties had a criminal background in 2009; this time the figure is 49%.