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| AAP Bane Crorepati: Kejriwal's |
| AAP Bane Crorepati: Kejriwal's Party Candidates Twice as Rich in a Year, Says Report
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| INDIA
, 30-January-2015
16:1:0 PM |
| The Aam Aadmi Party might not be so "aam (common)" after all. Arvind Kejriwal's party has fielded almost as many "crorepati" or billionaire candidates in Delhi as have rivals BJP and Congress, says a report by the Association of Democratic Reforms or ADR.
1On an average AAP candidates this time are more than twice as rich as they were in December 2013. Average assets per candidate in the Congress has declined from Rs. 14.25 crore to Rs. 9.60 crores, in the BJP from Rs. 8.29 crore to Rs. 7.96 crores. But in the AAP it grew from Rs. 2.49 crore to rs 5.89 crore.
2The AAP - which owes its birth to a campaign for clean politics - matches its rivals on candidates with criminal cases too. AAP has more candidates with criminal cases at 23 (11 with serious charges), than the Congress with 21 (11 with serious charges) and a few less than the BJP, which has 27 (17 with serious charges).
317 per cent of the total candidates have criminal case against them, 11 per cent have serious criminal cases against them. ADR has sounded a "red alert" for 19 constituencies in Delhi which have at least three candidates with declared criminal cases.
4The Congress leads the list of the richest candidates - 59 of its 70 candidates have assets of a crore plus, the BJP comes next with 50 of its 69 candidates and 44 of AAPs 70 candidates are "crorepatis."
5The richest candidate is the Akali Dal's Manjinder Singh Sirsa and the second richest is the AAPs Parmila Tokas.
6In the list of top 5 candidates with incomes more than one crore a year declared in Income tax returns are two from AAP and one each from the Akali Dal, the BJP and the Congress.
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