<h1>Assembly race reveals high candidate criminal disclosures, convictions causing debarment and party strategies to substitute or re nominate candidates.</h1> About one-third of candidates in the assembly election phase declared criminal cases in affidavits, with 27% disclosing serious offences and at least 33 facing murder-related charges. Affidavit disclosure is the primary transparency mechanism; convictions have produced debarment and disqualification in specific instances, and parties have substituted or re nominated relatives and switched endorsements in response to those legal consequences.