Nearly 100 out of 953 candidates contesting the second phase of the Chhattisgarh Assembly polls have criminal cases against their names, with 56 facing serious offences of voluntarily causing hurt, cheating and criminal intimidation. Among the major parties, 13 (19 per cent) candidates from the Congress, 12 from the BJP, 11 from the Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (J) and 12 (27 per cent) from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have declared criminal cases in their affidavits, it said.
