This time the highest number of elderly and tainted in the Bihar Legislative Assembly, broken 15-year record

The relationship between politics and crime in Bihar is old. There is talk of teaching criminals a lesson in elections, but many tainters are given tickets and the public also makes them sit on a chair. Bihar has broken the record of the last 15 years in the case of tainted victories. This time, he is reaching the Vidhan Sabha by choosing the most tainted election. The good thing is that the elderly leaders have also shown amazing performance in the elections. There are 58 elders who won and are between 61 and 70 years of age.

66 percent of the MLAs elected in Bihar are of criminal image. In the last election, 142 tainted candidates had won and in 2005 only 100 MLAs were tipped. Among the tainted MLAs, the maximum number of cases are filed against Bahubali Anant Singh. In this, the names of Anant Singh (RJD), Reetlal Rai (RJD), Ajay Yadav (RJD), Amarjeet Kushwaha and RJD’s Mehboob can be named prominently.

This time, 42 out of 43 from JDU, 73 out of 74 of BJP, 75 out of 75 of RJD, 18 out of 19 of Congress, one of LJP, MLA are on trial. RJD tops this case. The RJD is also the party to win the most seats in Bihar.

Talk about the elderly, 58 legislators have become leaders whose age is between 61 and 70 in this assembly election. This figure was only 49 in 2015. At the same time in 2005, no such old candidate had won. 35 candidates aged 25 to 40 and 37 candidates aged 41 to 60 have won. The oldest MLA is Vijendra Yadav from JDU’s Supaul who is 74 years old. This is followed by Jitanram Manjhi (74 years) from Imamganj and Mevalal Chaudhary (74 years) of JDU. JDU has the highest number of elderly MLAs, 12 and BJP has 21 elderly MLAs.