Lok Sabha Election 2024: Parties with candidates having most number of criminal cases

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Lok Sabha Election 2024: Parties with candidates having most number of criminal cases


Image Source : INDIA TV ADR report on criminal cases declared by candidates of political events for Lok Sabha elections

The Supreme Court had in 2020 instructed the political events to place forth causes for the choice of candidates with criminal cases towards their names and why different people with out criminal antecedents couldn’t be chosen as candidates. However, based on the newest ADR report, practically 16 per cent of the candidates throughout events within the fray for the primary part of Lok Sabha polls on April 19 have declared their criminal cases to the Election Commission of India. Out of the evaluation of 1,618 candidates, 252 of them have declared criminal cases towards themselves. 161 have declared severe criminal cases towards their names.

Criteria for severe criminal cases:

  • Offence for which most punishment is of 5 years or extra.

  • If an offence is non-bailable

  • If it’s an electoral offence (for eg. IPC 171E or bribery)

  • Offence associated to loss to exchequer

  • Offences which can be assault, homicide, kidnap, rape associated

  • Offences which can be talked about in Representation of the People Act (Section 8)

  • Offences below Prevention of Corruption Act

  • Crimes towards girls

Candidates with different criminal cases:

  • 15 candidates have declared cases by which they’ve been convicted.

  • There are 7 candidates who’ve declared cases associated to homicide (IPC Section -302) towards themselves.

  • As many as 19 candidates have declared cases associated to try to homicide (IPC Section 307) towards themselves.

  • There are 18 candidates who’ve declared cases associated to crime towards girls. Out of 18 Candidates, 1 candidate has declared cases associated to rape (IPC Section-376).

  • 35 candidates have declared cases associated to hate speech towards themselves.

Party-wise candidates with criminal cases:

According to the ADR report, amongst main events, 4 (100 per cent) out of 4 candidates from RJD, 13 (59 per cent) out of 22 candidates from DMK, 3 (43 per cent) out of 7 candidates from SP, 2 (40 per cent) out of 5 candidates from AITC, 28 (36 per cent) out of 77 candidates from BJP, 13 (36 per cent) out of 36 candidates from AIADMK, 19 (34 per cent) out of 56 candidates from INC and 11 (13 per cent) out of 86 candidates from BSP have declared criminal cases towards themselves.

Parties with candidates with severe criminal cases:

Among the key events, 2 (50 per cent) out of 4 candidates from RJD, 6 (27 per cent) out of 22 candidates from DMK, 2 (29 per cent) out of 7 candidates from SP, 1 (20 per cent) out of 5 candidates from AITC, 14 (18 per cent) out of 77 candidates from BJP, 6 (17 per cent) out of 36 candidates from AIADMK, 8 (14 per cent) out of 56 candidates from INC and eight (9 per cent) out of 86 candidates from BSP have declared severe criminal cases towards themselves.

Here are events with most number of candidates having criminal cases

  • BJP: 28

  • Congress: 19

  • AIADMK: 13

  • DMK: 13

  • CPI: 2

  • CPIM: 3

  • AAP: 1

  • Shiv Sena: 1

  • NCP (SP): 1

HERE ARE THE CANDIDATES WITH MOST NUMBER OF CRIMINAL CASES (CLICK HERE)

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