Press Release: Analysis of Format C7 - Publication of Reasons Given for Selection of Candidates with Criminal Cases by Political Parties in the Delhi Assembly Elections, 2025

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Date: February 4, 2025

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Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has analysed Format C7 of 118 out of 699 candidates, who declared criminal cases against themselves and are contesting in the Delhi Assembly Election 2025 (excluding independent candidates).

The full English and Hindi reports along with the detailed Observations and Recommendations can be accessed here: https://adrindia.org/content/Analysis-of-Format-C7-Delhi-Assembly-Elections-2025

Summary and Highlights

This data has been compiled from political parties' websites as well as social media handles that were functional before and during the period of the Delhi assembly elections. Most political parties published details as per form C7 on their social media handles such as Twitter. It must be noted that in some cases, parties may have published these details elsewhere and it may not have appeared in our records.

Elections

Total Contesting Candidates

Number of Political Parties Analysed

(whose candidates have declared criminal cases)

Number of Candidates Analysed with Declared Criminal Cases

No. of Candidates with Criminal Cases having a Published Format C7

Delhi Assembly 2025

699

118

Political parties analysed:

In the Delhi Assembly Elections 2025, out of 105 political parties which are contesting the election, the following 22 political parties have been analysed whose candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves, for this report.

S.No.	Party Name	S.No.	Party Name
1	Aam Aadmi Party	12	Rashtrawadi Janlok Party (Satya)
2	Indian National Congress	13	New India United Party
3	Bharatiya Janata Party	14	All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen
4	People's Party of India (Democratic)	15	Bhartiya Rashtriya Jansatta
5	Nationalist Congress Party	16	Abhinav Bharat Party
6	Bhartiya Rashtrawadi Party	17	Samata Party
7	Jai Maha Bharath Party	18	National Loktantrik Party
8	Aapki Apni Party (Peoples)	19	Blue India Party
9	Sarvodaya Prabhat Party	20	Bhartiya Insan Party
10	Azad Adhikar Sena	21	Peoples Green Party
11	Delhi Janta Party	22	Rashtravadi Loktantrik Party (India)

Criminal Background

Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of 699 contesting candidates analysed, 118 candidates belonging to the aforementioned political parties have declared criminal cases against themselves.

Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: Out of 118 candidates with declared criminal cases, 71 have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

Reasons furnished for nominating candidates with criminal antecedents:

Out of 118 candidates with criminal cases, reasons have been furnished for 94 (80%) candidates.
Out of 71 candidates with serious criminal cases, reasons have been furnished for 54 (76%) candidates.
For 24 (20%) candidates with criminal background, no reasons for their selection have been provided by political parties.

Reasons given for top 5 candidates with highest number of total criminal cases pending:

S.No.	District	Constituency	Candidate	Party	No. of cases	Serious IPC/BNS Counts	Reasons for selection of candidate with criminal cases pending	Reasons as to why other individuals without criminal antecedents could not be selected
1	South-East	Okhla	Amanatullah Khan	AAP	19	15	Present MLA with good reputation among the masses & the cases are politically motivated.	Candidate was selected by consensus among the party workers in the area. No other candidate with similar support.
2	New Delhi	New Delhi	Arvind Kejriwal	AAP	15	5	Ex Chief Minister and Party National Convener with good reputation among the masses & the cases are politically motivated.	Candidate was selected by consensus among the party workers in the area. No other candidate with similar support.
3	North	Shakur Basti	Satyendar Jain	AAP	14	0	Present MLA & Ex Minister with good reputation among the masses & the cases are politically motivated.	Candidate was selected by consensus among the party workers in the area. No other candidate with similar support.
4	North-East	Mustafabad	Mohd. Tahir Hussain	All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen	11	38	The selected candidate is very sincere & is very dedicated towards the party. The Candidate has a very good reputation in the society as he is doing social work at large scale in his area.	The cases registered against above named candidate, are relating to the political enmity as he has a long political history in his area so he is found more suitable candidate to be selected as an MLA.
5	North	Model Town	Akhilesh Pati Tripathi	AAP	10	11	Present MLA with good reputation among the masses & the cases are politically motivated.	Candidate was selected by consensus among the party workers in the area. No other candidate with similar support.

Table: Reasons given for top 5 candidates with highest number of total criminal cases pending

Most commonly stated reasons by political parties for selection of candidates with criminal cases pending:

Reasons for selection of candidate with criminal cases pending	Reasons as to why other individuals without criminal antecedents could not be selected
Present MLA with good reputation among the masses & the cases are politically motivated.	Candidate was selected by consensus among the party workers in the area. No other candidate with similar support.
Candidate has been working among the people for more than a decade. He has good organisational skills and has been trying to improve the situation of the constituency through his efforts.	Candidate has been an accessible leader and enjoys good community support. He is committed to the ideals of the party and was found to be good choice amongst.
The candidate is a respectable member of the society and is very popular amongst the local population and enjoys support of the local electorate. There is only one FIR against him for raising his voice against irrational behaviour of a Govt. servant. Thus, the party deemed it fit to select him as a candidate. He is a popular youth leader of the party and hence enjoys considerable support of the electorate.	Keeping in view, the services being rendered by him in the constituency and considering the FIR against him is foisted as a result of political vendetta, the party has preferred him over any other candidate. He is a familiar and popular face among the voters.
The selected candidate is very sincere & is very dedicated towards the party. The Candidate has a very good reputation in the society as he is doing social work at large scale in his area.	The cases registered against above named candidate, are relating to the political enmity as he has a long political history in his area so he is found more suitable candidate to be selected as an MLA.

Table: Most commonly stated reasons by political parties for selection of candidates with criminal cases pending

Political parties that did not publish reasons for selection of candidates with criminal cases pending*: Only 5 out of 22 analysed parties have made their candidates Format C7 publicly available.

Political Party	Total no. of contesting candidates with criminal cases pending	No. of Candidates with Format C7	Percentage of candidates with Format C7
AAP	44	42	95%
INC	29	29	100%
BJP	20	20	100%
All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen	2	2	100%
National Loktantrik Party	1	1	100%
Peoples Party of India (Democratic)	2	0	0%
NCP	2	0	0%
Bhartiya Rashtrawadi Party	1	0	0%
Jai Maha Bharath Party	2	0	0%
Aapki Apni Party (Peoples)	1	0	0%
Sarvodaya Prabhat Party	1	0	0%
Azad Adhikar Sena	1	0	0%
Delhi Janta Party	2	0	0%
Rashtrawadi Janlok Party (Satya)	1	0	0%
New India United Party	1	0	0%
Bhartiya Rashtriya Jansatta	1	0	0%
Abhinav Bharat Party	2	0	0%
Samata Party	1	0	0%
Blue India Party	1	0	0%
Bhartiya Insan Party	1	0	0%
Peoples Green Party	1	0	0%
Rashtravadi Loktantrik Party (India)	1	0	0%

Table: Political parties that did not publish Format C7 for candidates with criminal cases pending

*At the time of making this report, format C7 data of some political parties was not available on the websites and social media handles. However, it may have been posted earlier by the parties and removed later.

Top 3 candidates with highest criminal cases whose reasons for selection have not been published:

S.No.	District	Constituency	Candidate	Party	Total Cases
1	New Delhi	New Delhi	Mukesh Jain	Rashtrawadi Janlok Party (Satya)	4
2	North-West	Sultan Pur Majra	Jitender	Jai Maha Bharath Party	3
3	West	Madipur	Randhir Singh Tandi	Jai Maha Bharath Party	3

Table: Top 3 candidates with highest criminal cases whose reasons for selection have not been published

Other discrepancies in Format C7 of some candidates:

Name of the Party	Remarks
AAP	The Form C7 was uploaded on their party website but there is no signature of the office bearer. Refer Party Website Link Given Here: https://aamaadmiparty.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/33X47-PAGE-3_merged.pdf For all candidates with cases against them the party has given the same word to word reason in the sections for reason as to why other individuals without criminal antecedents could not be selected as candidates.
AIMIM	For both candidates with cases against them the party has given the same word to word reason in the both sections for selection of candidate with criminal background and reason as to why other individuals without criminal antecedents could not be selected as candidates. Refer Party Twitter Link Given Here: https://x.com/aimim_national/status/1879539385940717713/photo/1 https://x.com/aimim_national/status/1879539228037755025/photo/1
A portion of Format C7 for Sunil Kumar (National Loktantrik Party) is not available. Hence, the reasons for selection of the candidate cannot be ascertained.

S.No.	District	Constituency	Candidate	Party	Total Criminal Cases Declared in the Affidavit (Form 26)	Total Criminal Cases Declared in the Format C7
1	North	Shakur Basti	Satyendar Jain	AAP	14	4
2	East	Kondli	Kuldeep Kumar	AAP	7	6
3	East	Gandhi Nagar	Naveen Chaudhary (Deepu)	AAP	4	3
4	South-East	Sangam Vihar	Dinesh Mohaniya	AAP	4	2
5	West	Tilak Nagar	Jarnail Singh	AAP	4	2
6	South-West	Bijwasan	Surender Bhardwaj	AAP	3	2
7	Central	Burari	Sanjeev Jha	AAP	2	1

Table: Candidates who have declared different number of criminal cases in the Affidavit (form 26) and Format C-7

Financial Background

Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 118 candidates from parties with declared criminal cases, 84 (71%) are crorepatis.

High Assets Declared: Highest declared total assets of top 3 candidates, along with details of their criminal cases pending:

S. No.	District	Constituency	Candidate	Party	Cases Total	Serious IPC/BNS Counts	Total Assets (Rs.)
1	West	Rajouri Garden	Manjinder Singh Sirsa	BJP	5	0	2,48,85,52,444 248 Crore+
2	East	Krishna Nagar	Gurcharan Singh (Raju)	INC	1	0	1,30,90,52,000 130 Crore+
3	New Delhi	New Delhi	Parvesh Sahib Singh	BJP	1	0	1,15,63,83,180 115 Crore+