StatesPosted at: Mar 5 2018 2:56PM


One-fourth of candidates have criminal cases in Gorakhpur, Phulpur LS bypolls in UP

Lucknow, Mar 5 (UNI) One-fourth of the candidates in the fray for the Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-elections in Uttar Pradesh have criminal background and around 40 per cent are crorepatis.

However, a good thing witnessed in this bypolls was that most of the candidates are graduates or above while 78 per cent are youths and under the age of 50 years.
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