UP polls phase 2: 12 candidates ‘illiterate’, 114 educated till Std 8

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav at an election rally. Pic/PTI

Among the candidates contesting in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections' second phase, 114 are educated up to Std 8 while 12 have declared themselves to be "illiterate", according to an analysis report.

There are also 102 ‘post graduate' candidates and six with PhD in the contest, stated the report by polls reforms advocacy groups Uttar Pradesh Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Voting is scheduled for February 14 in 55 assembly seats spanning nine districts of Amroha, Bareilly, Bijnor, Budaun, Moradabad, Rampur, Saharanpur, Sambhal and Shahjahanpur in western Uttar Pradesh.

The report is based on the analysis of self-sworn affidavits of 584 candidates out of 586 who are contesting, it stated. Affidavits of two candidates could not be analysed
because they were either badly scanned or incomplete, the report said.

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