Karnataka polls: 391 candidates facing criminal cases; 883 crorepatis; BJP No.1 in both

coastaldigest.com web desk
May 7, 2018

Bengaluru, May 7: Out of the 2560 candidates in the Karnataka elections fray, 391 have self-declared criminal cases against them while 254 of them have “serious criminal cases” in their names.  A total of 883 candidates are crorepatis, including 208 from the BJP and 207 from Congress.

The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Karnataka Election Watch have analysed affidavits of 2560 candidates out of the 2655 and released a report days ahead of the May 12 elections.

The analysis shows that four candidates have declared cases related to murder (Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code). As many as 23 candidates are facing cases related to crimes against women.

The ADR report says, among all major parties contesting the elections, BJP has the most number of candidates with criminal cases, followed by Congress and JD(S).

Out of the 224 BJP candidates, 83 or 37% have criminal cases of varied degrees against them while 59 or 27% of the 220 candidates from Congress have similar cases in their names.

JD(S) has 41 such candidates among its 199 contenders while Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), too, has 5 candidates out of its 25, with criminal records. Five of AAP’s candidates too have such dubious records while 108 out of the 1,090 Independent candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Again, in the “serious criminal cases” category too, BJP has the maximum number of candidates with such offences followed by Congress and JD(S).

Among major parties, 58 BJP candidates have serious criminal records while 32 of 220 Congress candidates and 29 JD(S) candidates similar records.

The ADR has also declared 56 Karnataka seats as “red alert constituencies” where there are at least 3 candidates in the poll fray with declared criminal records.

The percentage of crorepatis in the BJP has jumped from 72% in 2013 to 93%. In the Congress, the number went up from 88% to 94%, though affidavits of two candidates were yet to be analysed. The JD(S) has 77% crorepatis, as against 70% in 2013.

Harish Narasappa, state coordinator of KEW, said heads of the political parties seem to be giving more importance to the candidates’ money power rather than their leadership qualities or parliamentary knowledge. “It seems they think 15 such (knowledgeable leaders) are enough to lead party and pick the rest among those who can supply money,” he said.

Comments

Raghavendra
 - 
Monday, 7 May 2018

Italian bar dancer and her family looted much in India. You people are simply defaming BJP and Modiji

Sangeeth
 - 
Monday, 7 May 2018

Congress looted India from independence. That will not be a issue for presstitutes

Yogesh
 - 
Monday, 7 May 2018

Congi paid news. Vote for BJP

Danish
 - 
Monday, 7 May 2018

When people will start to think properly...?

Mohan
 - 
Monday, 7 May 2018

Another golden feather on BJP's hat. Congrats. shame on you BJP followers

Ganesh
 - 
Monday, 7 May 2018

BJP already proved that. No need of statistics

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April 17,2020

Kasaragod, Apr 17: Even as this district continue to remain in the high-alert red zone category of Covid-19, Kasaragod has slowly but steadily been limping back to restraint level of the pandemic from a possible slipping into a stage-3 of community spread early this month.

Thanks to the stringent and committed measures implemented by the district administration crisscross the district besides total isolation of few localities by enforcing triple lockdown.

The district had been a Covid-19 hotspot ever since an NRI who returned from the Gulf violated quarantine protocol and travelled wide and far by meeting and contacting with several people including two MLAs of the district. That apart the irresponsible attitude of the people who broke the rules of quarantine and lockdown norms also made things go from bad to worse resulting in contributing for a near-half of the total positive cases in the state at the beginning of April.

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May 28,2020

Bengaluru, May 28: A thousand government schools in Karnataka are set to get Englishmedium sections from this academic year (2020-21). These institutions will function in both English and Kannada medium.

The decision was taken by primary and secondary education minister S Suresh Kumar and officials of the education department at a meeting on Wednesday.

Suresh Kumar said dualmedium will help improve the standard of schools and enable their development. The poorest of the poor spend almost 40% of their income on their children’s education in private schools. With the introduction of dual-medium, the government hopes such families will be able to save their earnings, he said. These schools will impart lessons in both English and Kannada. They will also provide textbooks in both languages.

‘Kannada must for all’

The meeting reviewed implementation of the compulsory Kannada Language Learning Act, 2015. Officials from the Kannada Development Authority were present at the meeting who claimed that some private schools have failed to implement the Act properly.

“Action will be taken against such institutions. Every child studying in schools across the state must learn Kannada,” Kumar said at the meeting.

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March 8,2020

Mysuru, Mar 8: The 'Shuka Vana' (Parrots Museum), in the sprawling Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Ashrama here, will remain closed for 15 days from March 9 as a precautionary measure following COVID-19, Ashram authorities said here on Sunday.

Ashram authorities told UNI that the Museum will be closed due to threat of spread of Coronavirus. This is for the first time that the Museum has been closed for such a long time earlier it had closed for one or two days due to bird flu. The decision has been taken following the tourists and devotees including foreigners are arriving to Ashram in large numbers.

The ashram authorities have also closed famous The Kishkinda Moolika Bonsai garden on-premises for same reason.

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