Kerala Assembly Election 2016 Facts about Candidates, Candidates in Kerala Polls with Criminal Background, Kerala Polls 16th May Facts, Candidate Details Kerala Polls, Kerala Polls Kerala Live Voting, Kerala Opinion Exit poll, Kerala Assembly polls 2016

Kerala Assembly Election 2016 Facts about Candidates, Candidates in Kerala Polls with Criminal Background, Kerala Polls 16^th May Facts, Candidate Details Kerala Polls, Kerala Polls Kerala Live Voting, Kerala Opinion Exit poll, Kerala Assembly polls 2016

Kerala voting will start on 16^th May 2016. The criminal records of all contesting candidates is as mentioned here.

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1. #KeralaPolls2016: 71.7% total voter turnout recorded .
2. Voting will be started from 16^th May morning 7 a.m. Kerala Assembly Elections 2016 will be held in single phase.

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Analysis of Criminal and Financial Background of Candidates:

Here are the details, record & criminal background of Candidates who are in the fray for Kerala Polls 2016

Criminal Background of candidates 

An analysis of affidavits filed before the Election Commission by candidates along with their nominations shows that 91 percent of the 83 candidates fielded by the Congress that heads the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) and 75 percent of the 89 candidates of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which heads the Opposition Left Democratic Front (LDF), have criminal cases pending against them.

1. The CPM candidates top the list with 617 cases. The total number of cases pending against 76 Congress candidates is 84. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is making a strong bid to open its account in the assembly this time, and its main ally, the Bharath Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS) has 152 cases pending against their candidates.
2. The present Assembly has 48 percent of the MLAs with criminal cases pending against them. According to Election Watch Kerala, 67 MLAs of the 140 members had declared themselves that they were facing various criminal cases in courts and police stations across the state.
3. Of these, 12 have declared serious IPC charges like attempt to murder, attempt to commit culpable homicide, graft, assault cases and others against them. All the major parties have MLAs with pending criminal cases against them. They include 23 Congress MLAs, 21 CPM, eight Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and five Communist Party of India MLAs. The BJP, which did not make it to the Assembly, had topped the list of major political parties in the 2011 Assembly polls with 47 candidates facing criminal charges.

The list of cases pending against the candidates was prepared by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy following Opposition leader V S Achuthanandan’s allegation that Chandy and his colleagues in his 21-member ministry alone had 131 cases pending against them.

He said that the total number of cases pending against the 140 candidates fielded by UDF was only 106 cases, while the LDF candidates are grappling with a total of 685 cases. Chandy claimed that there was no case pending against him in any court in the state.

The list shows that Achuthanandan and the other chief ministerial prospect of the CPM Pinarayi Vijayan have 17 cases pending against them. Achuthanandan has declared six cases in the affidavit. Five of these are related to defamation and one was related to an agitation in front of the Secretariat.

Kadakampally Surendran, who is contesting the election as the CPM candidate at Kazhakuttam in Thiruvananthapuram district, follows him with 45 cases. The third position is occupied by A N Shamsheer, the party’s candidate at Thalassery with 35 cases.

The other CPM candidates who have more number of cases against them include :

1. K K Lathika (Kuttiadi-32 cases),
2. V Sivankutty (Nemom-31),
3. V Salim (Aluva–26),
4. Binoy Kurien (Peravoor-25),
5. Antony John (Kothamangalam-24),
6. A A Rashid (Aruvikkara-22),
7. E P Jayarajan (Mattannoor-21)
8. M Swaraj (Thripunithura-20).

Two CPM candidates are involved in murder cases. Party’s Udumbumchola (Idukki district) candidate M M Mani is an accused in the murder of Anchery Baby, a Youth Congress leader, in 1982. The case was registered after he made a statement in 2012 claiming that his party had prepared a list of 13 political opponents to be eliminated. The subsequent investigations by the police revealed that four murders that occurred in Idukki had links to this statement.

The CPM candidate facing suicide abetment case is James Mathew. James, who is representing Taliparampa in the current constituency, was arrested by the police on the charge of abetting the suicide of a school teacher, based on a suicide note left behind by him.

A Congress candidate with a serious criminal case pending against him is K Sudhakaran. He was arrested for his alleged involvement in the attempt to murder Kannur CPM Secretary E P Jayarajan in April 1995. Sudhakaran, a former minister, is contesting the election this time from Uduma in Kasargod district.

Many ministers belonging to the party’s allies in the UDF are also grappling with various cases. Three ministers belonging to the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and two of the Kerala Congress (M) are facing graft cases. Kerala Congress (M) leader K M Mani, who stepped down from the ministry following bribe charges levelled against him by the bar owners, is seeking re-election at Pala in Kottayam district.

Nine MLAs of the Kerala Congress (M) spent an average of Rs.11.16 lakh on their campaign while 19 Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) spent an average of Rs.10.54 lakh. The 38 MLAs of the Congress party claimed to have averaged only Rs.10.04 lakh, CPI(M)’s 45 MLAs claimed that their spending averaged Rs.8.12 lakh, while the CPI’s 13 MLAs logged an average Rs.8.91 lakh.

This was one of the many findings of the analysis of election expenditure statements conducted by the National Election Watch (NEW), in association with the Association of Democratic Reforms, shortly after the 2011 election.

Only four MLAs had admitted to have spent over Rs.13 lakh, which was still a bit above 80 per cent of the sanctioned campaign expenses limit, while 39 MLAs affirmed that they incurred a less than Rs.8 lakh spent, which was not even 50 per cent of the sanctioned limit.

P.K. Basheer (IUML) who won from Ernad in Malappuram was the biggest spender with Rs.15.24 lakh followed by his party colleague P.K. Kunhalikutty from Vengara with Rs.13.99 lakh.

The lowest spenders were CPI(M) MLA K. Kunhiraman from Udma in Kasaragod district who spent just Rs.2.49 lakh and Congress MLA P.K. Jayalakshmi from Mananthavady in Wayanad who spent Rs.3.96 lakh.

No less than 54 MLAs declared that they did not spend a single rupee on campaigning through electronic/ print media while 39 MLAs declared that they did not spend anything on campaign workers.

Eight MLAs had declared that they spent less than Rs.10,000 on public meetings, processions, etc., 13 MLAs claimed to have spent less than Rs.10,000 on campaign workers and four MLAs submitted that they spent less than Rs.50,000 on campaign vehicles.

NEW had demanded an investigation by the Election Commission into the veracity of such disclosures.

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