Kolkata:
In the fifth phase of the 2016 West Bengal
Assembly elections, which is going to take place on April 30, out of the 349
candidates contesting, 67 have criminal cases pending against them while 43 are
crorepatis.
The
districts which are going under poll on April 30 are South 24 Parganas, Kolkata
and Hooghly. A total of 53 Constituencies will face election on that day.
According to a report released by the West Bengal Election Watch
on Tuesday, 52 of the 67 candidates with criminal cases face serious charges
including that of murder and crimes against women. The ruling Trinamool
Congress with 17 nominees leads the list of candidates with criminal charges,
followed by the Communist Party of India-Marxist with 14.The Bharatiya Janata
Party has fielded ten such candidates while the Congress has fielded seven.
Five constituencies, Kolkata Port, Jangipara, Kasba, Raidighi and Singur
, have been declared as “red alert Constituencies”, where there are three or
more candidates with criminal charges.
The average assets of all the 349 candidates is Rs 70.78 lakh.
Trinamool leads the crorepati list with 23 candidates followed by nine
from the BJP and six from CPI-M and three from the Congress.
Khalid Ebadullah of the Congress from Magrahat West in South 24
Parganas is the wealthiest candidate with assets in excess of Rs 19 crore. One
the flip side, Indian Union Muslim League nominee WH Khan contesting from
Ballygunge in the city and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha candidate Kashinath Murmu
from Saptagram in Hooghly have declared zero assets.
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