  We present here a detailed analysis on the effects of charge on the
anisotropic strange star candidates by considering a spherically symmetric
interior spacetime metric. To obtain exact solution of the Einstein-Maxwell
field equations we have considered the anisotropic strange quark matter (SQM)
distribution governed by the simplified MIT bag equation of state (EOS),
$p=\frac{1}{3}\left( {\rho}-4\,B \right)$, where $B$ is the bag constant and
the distribution of the electrical charge is given as
$q(r)=Q\left({r}/{R}\right)^3=\alpha {r^3}$, where $\alpha$ is a constant. To
this end, to calculate different constants we have described the exterior
spacetime by the Reissner-Nordstr{\"o}m metric. By using the values of the
observed mass for the different strange star candidates we have maximized
anisotropic stress at the surface to predict the exact values of the radius for
the different values of $\alpha$ and a specific value of the bag constant.
Further, we perform different tests to study the physical validity and the
stability of the proposed stellar model. We found accumulation of the electric
charge distribution is maximum at the surface having electric charge of the
order ${{10}^{20}}~C$ and electric field of the order ${10}^{21-22}~V/cm$. To
study the different physical parameters and the effects of charge on the
anisotropic stellar system we have presented our analysis graphically and in
the tabular format by considering $LMC~X-4$ as the representative of the
strange star candidates.
