From the recognised political parties there are 53 candidates who are battling for June 12 byelections, at most 15 have criminal background.One of the candidates was imprisoned of murder, but later they was released by a higher court.Of the disgraced candidates, five of them from Congress and other five are from TDP.

Deepak Reddy Gunapati, the TDP candidate at Rayadurg, has a land dispute case pending against him at the Banjara Hills police station. He is also an accused in a case registered at the Rayadurg police station for intimidating and voluntarily causing hurt. 

"I have been falsely implicated in a land dispute case at Banjara Hills in which I already got various court judgments and decrees from the civil court and high court. The cases were levelled against me because of personal grudge," Deepak Reddy said in his affidavit filed along with his nomination papers. 

According to affidavits filed by the 15 candidates at Parkal constituency in Warangal district except for BJP's Vijaya Chandra Reddy, three of the four recognised parties have fielded tainted candidates. 

TRS candidate Moluguri Bikshapathi is facing four different cases. The charges slapped against him are under sections 147 (rioting), 427 (mischief causing to damage) and 153A (promoting enmity between groups) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Sambari Samma Rao of Congress, on the other hand, is accused of assault and criminal intimidation. 

However, TRS activists claim Bikshapathi was framed by the state government for participating in the separate Telangana agitation since 2009. He is active in organising agitations for the cause of Telangana in Warangal district. So, police registered the cases, they claimed. 

Earlier, TDP candidate I Rampulla Reddy, who is in the fray for the Allagadda constituency, faced the grave charge of murder. In 1997, he was booked for murder and rioting. He was even convicted and awarded life imprisonment by the IV additional district judge court, Kurnool, in 2001. However, the high court acquitted him in the case in 2003. However, Rampulla Reddy continues to face a charge of disobedience to the order duly promulgated by a public servant, which was registered in a different case. 

The bypolls are for 18 assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat which fell vacant following the resignation of a few Congress leaders and a TDP MLA, who joined the YSR Congress party.

On the other hand, chief electoral officer has made available only the affidavits of candidates pertaining to the recognised parties.