2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections - 231 crorepatis to contest in Uttar Pradesh’s first phase

Political parties in Uttar Pradesh—BJP, BSP and SP-Congress—have always claimed to be pro-poor. 

But their candidates who wish to represent the people are anything but that. 

Affidavits filed by candidates for first phase of UP elections reveal there are 231 crorepatis in this phase alone with BSP—the party of the oppressed classes—fielding the high number of ultrarich candidates