Ranchi, March 25
If elected again to the Lok Sabha again, outgoing Palamu MP Kameshwar Baitha is likely to retain his record of the most number of cases against a member. In fact, his affidavit indicates he is set to improve on it.
In 2009, Baitha got elected on a JMM ticket with 46 cases against his name. His latest affidavit, filed since his defection to the TMC, indicates that he has achieved a half-century, with 51 cases.
Baitha had to attach four pages to his affidavit as his cases could not be contained in the space provided on the application form.
The former rebel seemed to have aged slowly as a Parliamentarian: if, in 2009 his affidavit declared that he was 56 years old, Baitha's current affidavit claims he is only 59. This is clearly a Jharkhandi phenomenon - Ranchi's outgoing MP Subodh Kant Sahai stated in 2009 that he was 57 years old; his current affidavit says he is 60.
Former CPI-Maoist Central Committee member Baitha has 23 and 17 cases in Bihar's Bhabua and Sasaram respectively. He has eight and three cases in Jharkhand's Garhwa and Daltonganj. Baitha is yet to be convicted. In 2009, he had 18 cases each in Babua and Sasaram and eight and two in Garhwa and Daltonganj.
Baitha was arrested in 2005 and released in 2011 after obtaining bail in all cases against him. He contested in 2009 while a prisoner and was in a Bihar jail when the results were declared. He had also unsuccessfully contested the 2007 bypoll from Palamu as a BSP candidate. Before obtaining bail, Baitha was housed in Tihar Jail during Parliament sessions.
The JMM ditched him ahead of the polls after the Scheduled Caste reserved seat was given to the Congress in the UPA's seat-sharing agreement. Baitha tried to go to the BJP, which turned him down. He is not the most high-profile candidate from the constituency this time, though - that title goes to former state DGP V.D. Ram, under whose tenure Baitha was in jail.
Baitha had to attach four pages to his affidavit as his cases could not be contained in the space provided on the application form.
The former rebel seemed to have aged slowly as a Parliamentarian: if, in 2009 his affidavit declared that he was 56 years old, Baitha's current affidavit claims he is only 59. This is clearly a Jharkhandi phenomenon - Ranchi's outgoing MP Subodh Kant Sahai stated in 2009 that he was 57 years old; his current affidavit says he is 60.
Former CPI-Maoist Central Committee member Baitha has 23 and 17 cases in Bihar's Bhabua and Sasaram respectively. He has eight and three cases in Jharkhand's Garhwa and Daltonganj. Baitha is yet to be convicted. In 2009, he had 18 cases each in Babua and Sasaram and eight and two in Garhwa and Daltonganj.
Baitha was arrested in 2005 and released in 2011 after obtaining bail in all cases against him. He contested in 2009 while a prisoner and was in a Bihar jail when the results were declared. He had also unsuccessfully contested the 2007 bypoll from Palamu as a BSP candidate. Before obtaining bail, Baitha was housed in Tihar Jail during Parliament sessions.
The JMM ditched him ahead of the polls after the Scheduled Caste reserved seat was given to the Congress in the UPA's seat-sharing agreement. Baitha tried to go to the BJP, which turned him down. He is not the most high-profile candidate from the constituency this time, though - that title goes to former state DGP V.D. Ram, under whose tenure Baitha was in jail.
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