India's General Elections are over. So what sort of candidates have won?
Nearly half of the newly-elected Lok Sabha members have criminal charges
against them, a 26% increase as compared to 2014, according to the
Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR).
Of the 539 winning candidates analysed by the ADR, as many as 233 MPs or 43%
have criminal charges.
The BJP has 116 MPs or 39% of its winning candidates with criminal cases,
followed by 29 MPs (57%) from the Congress.
In the new Lok Sabha, nearly 29% of the cases are related to rape, murder,
attempt to murder or crime against women, ADR said.
“There is an increase of 109% [in 2019] in the number of MPs with declared
serious criminal cases since 2009,” it said.
Eleven winners including five from the BJP have murder charges against them,
the ADR said.
India's Parliament always had MPs with a criminal background. It seems it
cannot function without criminal MPs.
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