Lucknow | Out of the 403 newly elected legislators in Uttar Pradesh, 205 (nearly 51 per cent) have declared criminal cases against themselves. Of these 143 (36 per cent) MLAs have made the declarations in their affidavits. According to an analysis report released by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), 158 (39 per cent) winning candidates […]
Lucknow | As Uttar Pradesh elections move further, it is the Samajwadi Party which leads the race with maximum number of candidates with criminal background in the fifth phase. As per the analysis data released by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), nearly 42 out of 59 candidates of SP have a criminal record. The Apna […]
Lucknow | The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) which has analysed the affidavits filed by 615 candidates out of the total 623 for the first phase of polls in Uttar Pradesh, has found that almost all parties have fielded candidates with a criminal background. Among the major parties, 21 out of 28 candidates analysed from Samajwadi […]
Lucknow | Around 35 per cent MLAs of the Uttar Pradesh assembly have criminal cases against them while 79 per cent are crorepatis. The details were revealed in a press statement here today by Uttar Pradesh Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reform(ADR) after analysing financial, criminal and other details of 396 sitting MLAs out […]
Lucknow | The Association for Democratic Reforms, on Tuesday, released a detailed survey of 396 sitting legislators in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly that has a strength of 403 members. The ADR report claims that 35 per cent (140) legislators have criminal cases registered against them and 27 per cent legislators have some sort of links […]
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has declared the highest figure of assets – Rs 143.26 crore – making him the richest among the nine Members of Legislative Council elected unopposed last week, according to an analysis by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) released here on Wednesday. Out of the 9 MLCs elected, 8 figure […]
New Delhi: Political parties have collected Rs 11,234 crore from unknown sources in the last 15 years, according to election watchdog, Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR). An analysis of their Income Tax Returns (ITR) and donations statements filed with the Election Commission of India (ECI) showed that the sources remained largely unknown. At present, political […]
New Delhi: Three-fourth of the new Delhi MLAs are millionaires, one-third have not studied beyond senior secondary and more than half have criminal cases against them, according to the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR). According to ADR, 45 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators of the 62, and seven of the eight Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) […]
New Delhi: It was on the eve of the Independence Day in 2019 when Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had first announced that his government would launch a new “Deshbhakti” (patriotism) curriculum from next year to develop a feeling of nationalism among the students. Months later, as the party released its manifesto on Tuesday, the […]
New Delhi: Out of the 672 candidates, who are fighting the Assembly elections in Delhi, only 298 (44 per cent) are graduates or above and 16 are illiterate, said a report of the Delhi Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). The report, which was released on Saturday, said 340 (51 per cent) candidates […]
