A compelling new analysis brings to light that among the recently appointed ministers of Tamil Nadu, an alarming 50% have criminal backgrou...

Newly elected West Bengal MLAs show a significant increase in criminal cases. Over 65 percent declared criminal charges, a jump from the pr...

A report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has revealed that only 9% of the 1,352 candidates contesting the third phase of th...

The West Bengal Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), which scrutinised the affidavits, on Monday said three indepen...

The qualifications of two winning candidates could not be analysed due to the unavailability of clear and complete affidavits with the Stat...

There are also 102 'post graduate' candidates and six with Ph.D in the fray, stated the report by polls reforms advocacy groups Uttar Prade...

Kerala Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed self-sworn affidavits of 20 of the 21 ministers, inclu...

There has been an improvement in the educational qualifications of candidates in this year's Bihar elections as 48 per cent of candidates h...

Interestingly, the Centre had informed the Supreme Court earlier this year that of the 1,765 MPs and MLAs across the country, 36 per cent w...

Dinesh Shukla, a political analyst, said that India doesn't have any minimum education requirement to contest elections.

A total of 496 candidates out of the 1,125 analysed have not declared their PAN details while 834 have not declared income tax details.

A total of 114 candidates have not declared their PAN details, while 284 have not declared income tax details, it added.

Three of them are 'illiterate' while 140 candidates are postgraduates, the analysis by the Assam Election Watch and Association for Democra...

The comparison has been done to understand the trend of engagement of money and muscle power along with other details of the candidates, an...

Order said that all government departments and undertakings should accept self attestation of certificates by candidates.

In cases where a citizen thinks a candidate has filed wrong information, he or she can file a counter-affidavit to challenge the details gi...

EC has rejected a demand to make mandatory filing of affidavits by candidates in Presidential poll disclosing their assets and criminal rec...