Bihar Assembly polls: Men outnumber the women
Patna, Oct 5: The first phase of the Bihar elections will see more men candidates when compared to women. There are 530 male candidates contesting the first phase of the elections as compared to the 53 women.
Read more: Bihar Assembly Polls 2015: Complete Coverage
A report put out by the Association for Democratic Reforms provides some interesting statistics.
In the report by the ADR (In Bihar polls, 130 candidates have serious criminal cases pending against them) it was stated that there are 130 candidates have declared serious criminal cases including cases related to murder, attempt to murder, communal disharmony, kidnapping, crimes against women against them.
Some
interesting
statistics:
The
richest
candidate
is
Binod
Kumar
Singh.
He
is
an
independent
candidate
contesting
from
the
Warshinagar
constituency
and
has
assets
worth
Rs
74
crore.
-Poonam Devi Yadav, JD(U) candidate contesting from Khagaria has assets worth Rs 41 crore.
- Ajeet Sharma of the Indian National Congress contesting from Bhagalpur is worth Rs 40 crore.
There are two candidates who have declared zero assets.
- Suresh Sada contesting from Bakhri of the Bharatiya Janhit Dal has declared zero assets.
-Pradep Rajbhanshi contesting from Hisua of the Moolniwasi Samaj Party has also declared zero assets.
-Yogeshwar Manjhi and independent candidate contesting from Barbigha has declared assets worth Rs 954.
The
red
alert
constituencies:
In
all
there
are
37
red
alert
constituencies
in
Bihar.
A
red
alert
constituency
is
one
which
has
3
or
more
candidates
with
pending
criminal
cases
against
them.
Mohiuddinnagar
a
red
alert
constituency
has
9
candidates
with
pending
criminal
cases
against
them
thus
making
it
the
highest.
Jamalpur
with
6,
Behlar
and
Suragarha
with
6
each
are
the
other
red
alert
constituencies
in
Bihar.
14
(52%)
out
of
27
candidates
from
BJP,
14
(56%)
out
of
25
candidates
from
Communist
Party
of
India
(CPI),
8
(20%)
out
of
41
candidates
from
BSP,
11
(46%)
out
of
24
candidates
fielded
by
JD(U),
9
(50%)
out
of
18
candidates
from
Samajwadi
Party
(SP).
8 (47%) out of 17 candidates of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), 6 (75%) out of 8 candidates fielded by Indian National Congress (INC), 8 (62%) out of 13 candidates of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) along with 8 (67%) out of 12 candidates of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) and 45 (23%) out of 192 Independent candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
10 (37%) out of 27 candidates from BJP, 7 (28%) out of 25 candidates from CPI, 6 (15%) out of 41 candidates from BSP, 9 (38%) out of 24 candidates fielded by JD(U), 7 (39%) out of 18 candidates from SP, 6 (35%) out of 17 candidates of RJD, 4 (50%) out of 8 candidates fielded by INC, 6 (46%) out of 13 candidates of LJP along with 5 (42%) out of 12 candidates of the CPI(M) and 38 (20%) out of 192 Independent candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
37 constituencies (Red Alert) in the first phase of Bihar assembly elections have 3 or more candidates with declared criminal cases. Red Alert Constituencies are those which have 3 or more candidates with criminal cases contesting elections.
Crorepatis:
The
highest
number
of
crorepati
candidates
are
the
independents.
There
are
42
independents
who
according
to
their
declaration
have
suggested
that
they
are
crorepatis.
The ruling JD(U) comes second with 19 crorepati candidates. The BJP has 18 while the RJD and Indian National Congress have 17 and 6 respectively. Out of the 583 candidates, 146 (25%) are crorepatis.
18 (67%) out of 27 fielded by BJP, 19 (79%) out of 24 candidates from JD(U), 11 (65%) out of 17 candidates from RJD, 6 (33%) out of 18 candidates fielded by SP, 6 (75%) out of 8 candidates of INC, 8 (62%) out of 13 candidates of LJP, 3(7%) out of 41 candidates of BSP and 42 (22%) out of 192 Independent candidates have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.
The average of assets per candidate contesting in the first phase of Bihar assembly elections is Rs.1.44 crores.
Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 27 BJP candidates is Rs 2.15 crores, 41 BSP candidates have average assets of Rs 1.63 crores, 24 JD(U) candidates have average assets worth of Rs 4.63 crores.
8 INC candidates have average assets worth Rs 8 crores, 17 RJD candidates have average assets worth of Rs 4.08 crores, the average assets per candidate for 18 SP candidates is Rs 78.27 lakhs, 13 LJP candidates have average assets of Rs 2.7 crores and 192 Independent candidates have average assets of Rs. 1.23 crores.
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