Hyderabad: Telangana Election Watch (TEW), after analyzing the criminal, financial and other background details of 365 contestants of the main parties in the State– TRS, INC (kootami), BJP and MIM– found that 181 of them have declared that they have criminal cases against them. Party-wise, the number of candidates having criminal cases are: 57 out of 119 candidates of TRS (47.8%) 77 out of 119 contestants of Congress-led Kootami (64.7%), 40 out of 119 nominees of BJP (33.6%), and Seven out of eight candidates of the MIM (87.5%).
These details were given to the media by Telangana Election Watch organizers M Padmanabha Reddy, Justice Reddappa Reddy and Rao Chelikani here today. 30 civil Society organizations have come under one banner as Telangana Election Watch 2018, with the twin objectives of voter awareness and to have watch on code violations and to report such violations to the concerned officials, so that, elections are conducted in a free and fair manner. TEW has taken up an analysis of candidates have criminal cases. For this purpose the affidavits filed by them are taken as basis and analyzed by a committee and a report is prepared.
They said that in their analysis some candidates are having cases registered during Telangana agitation, and some have criminal cases and few other have cases of both the types. Many cases are pending since last 6 to 7 years. For 119 Assembly seats there are 365 candidates of the above parties in the fray. Out of 365 candidates 181 candidates have cases against them. Out of the above, if more number of candidates wins elections, in the coming Assembly there will be more than half legislators having cases against them. Political parties gave tickets to winnable candidates irrespective of their criminal record. This is not good for our democracy, they pointed out.
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