New Delhi: Nearly a third of the candidates aspiring for a place in the Bihar Assembly face criminal charges, include murder, extortion, kidnapping and robbery.
'Bihar Election Watch', a joint study by an NGO, Bihar-based Lok Sambad and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) , has found 28 per cent of the candidates contesting for the four-phased Assembly polls in Bihar face criminal charges.
Stats show 446 of a total of 1,607 candidates, cutting across party lines, in the fray for the 243 Assembly constituencies have criminal backgrounds.
The study is based on affidavits submitted by the candidates to the Election Commission while filing nominations.
BJP, which leads the NDA, tops the chart with 49 per cent as 49 of its total 99 candidates contesting polls facing criminal charges.
BJP's alliance partner, Janata Dal (United) is at The JD(U) has 39 per cent with 52 candidates with criminal charges.
RJD, headed by Union Minister for Railways, Lalu Prasad, is at 42 per cent with has 69 such candidates
Union Minister for Steel Ramvilas Paswan's LJP has 74 candidates (LJP 37 per cent) with criminal cases against them.
CPI (ML) has fielded 28 candidates (41 per cent) with criminal cases.
Congress has fielded 16, Bahujan Samaj Party has 33, Samajwadi party's is 40 and CPI has 10 candidates facing criminal charges.
In the last assembly elections, of the 1,528 candidates fielded by main political parties, 454 had criminal cases pending in courts.
And of the 243 winners, 102 were accused in some criminal case or the other.
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