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Patna:  After the second Cabinet expansion in Bihar, 28 of the 31 members of the Bihar Cabinet own assets that average over Rs 4.46 crore even as 18 of them have declared criminal cases against themselves, the Association for Democratic…

New Delhi:   The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has said that around 18 per cent of the candidates in the fray during the by-polls for eight Gujarat Assembly seats have declared criminal cases pending against themselves. As per…

The upper house or the Rajya Sabha (RS) members of Parliament are often called 'unelected'. Many a time allegations are levelled against political parties that such seats are "sold". Now the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), a…

The recently concluded Lok Sabha elections saw 341 of 542 candidates, including many with criminal records, winning with over 50 per cent of the total votes polled in their constituencies, according to a report.

As many as 159 candidates elected to the Lok Sabha this time have declared "serious" criminal cases against themselves, while 233 have shown criminal cases in their affidavits, according to an analysis by the National Election Watch (NEW)…

As many as 151 of the 174 newly-elected MLAs in the Andhra Pradesh Pradesh Assembly have declared criminal cases against them, with 55 or 32 per cent reporting "serious" criminal cases in their affidavits, according to the Andhra Pradesh…

Candidates with Criminal Cases: 332 (30%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Out of 1420 candidates analysed during Odisha Assembly elections in 2014, 333(23%) candidates had declared criminal cases against…

The Odisha Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) published the report of candidates contesting in Phase-III polls here today. A total of 60 Lok Sabha candidates have been analysed for six seats-Bhubaneswar, Cuttack,…

A whopping 570 candidates out of a total 1,612, who are contesting in the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections, have declared criminal cases against them, according to Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) data published on Friday.

Polling will be held in Bargarh, Sundargarh, Bolangir, Kandhamal and Aska Lok Sabha seats and Assembly constituencies of Odisha on Thursday.