At least 466 candidates contesting the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls have declared felony circumstances towards themselves, a report from the Tamil Nadu Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) says.
A complete of three,998 candidates are within the fray for the 234 constituencies in Tamil Nadu.
The ADR and the Tamil Nadu Election Watch have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of three,559 candidates.
“There are 439 candidates who have not been analysed as either their affidavits were badly scanned or incomplete affidavits were available on the ECI website at the time of making this report,” they stated within the report launched on Thursday.
The report stated that 207 candidates have declared severe felony circumstances towards themselves.
“Out of 3,559 candidates analysed, 466 (13%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves,” the report stated, including eight candidates have declared circumstances associated to crime towards ladies, together with one with declared circumstances associated to rape (IPC Section-376).
Out of 234 constituencies going for polls on April 6, 74 (32 %) are pink alert constituencies, the place three or extra contesting candidates have declared felony circumstances towards themselves. 76 % of the DMK candidates have declared felony circumstances towards themselves
Among the foremost events,136 (76 %) out of 178 candidates analysed from the DMK, 46 (24 %) out of 191 candidates analysed from the AIADMK, 18 (30 %) out of 60 candidates analysed from the DMDK, 15 (75 %) out of 20 candidates analysed from the BJP and 15 (71 %) out of 21 candidates analysed from the Congress have declared felony circumstances towards themselves of their affidavits.
“Ten (44 percent) out of 23 candidates analysed from Pattali Makkal Katchi, three (60 percent) out of five candidates analysed from CPI(M), two (50 percent) out of four candidates analysed from CPI and one (20 percent) out of five candidates analysed from NCP have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits,” it stated.
Among these with felony circumstances, 50 candidates from the DMK; 18 from the AIADMK, eight candidates from the DMDK, eight from the BJP, six from the Congress and 5 from Pattali Makkal Katchi have declared severe felony circumstances towards themselves of their affidavits, the report added.
“Seven candidates have declared cases related to murder (IPC Section-302) against themselves,” it stated, including 39 candidates have declared circumstances associated to aim to homicide (IPC Section-307) towards themselves.
Tamil Nadu will go for polls in a single part on April 6. The outcomes can be declared on May 2.
At least 68 outgoing MLAs have declared felony circumstances towards themselves
In a separate report launched in March, the ADR and the Tamil Nadu Election Watch analysed the felony background particulars of 204 out of 234 sitting MLAs. While 4 seats had been vacant, there have been 26 MLAs who haven’t been analysed on account of unavailability of their correctly scanned and full affidavits.
“Out of 204 sitting MLAs analysed, 68 (33 percent) MLAs have declared criminal cases against themselves,” the report stated, including 38 (19 %) MLAs have declared severe felony circumstances.
Among these, eight MLAs have declared circumstances associated to aim to homicide (IPC part 307) and two MLAs have declared circumstances associated to crimes towards ladies (IPC Section-354 and 509).
“40 (47 percent) out of 86 MLAs from the DMK, 23 (21 percent) out of 109 MLAs from the AIADMK, four (57 percent) out of seven MLAs from INC and one (100%) Independent MLA have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits,” it added.
Among these with felony data, 22 from the DMK, 13 from the AIADMK, two from the Congress and one Independent MLA have declared severe felony circumstances towards themselves of their affidavits.
