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13/09/23 10:31 AM IST

40% MPs have criminal cases against them; Kerala tops the list: ADR report

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  • Out of the 763 members of Parliament (MPs), 306 (40%) have declared criminal cases against themselves, according to a latest report released by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW).
Major Highlights
  • The data has been extracted from affidavits filed by the MPs prior to contesting their last elections.
  • Around 194 (25%) MPs have declared serious criminal cases, including cases related to murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, crimes against women etc.
  • Kerala (73%) topped the chart of MPs who declared criminal cases in their self-sworn affidavits, followed by Bihar, Maharashtra (57%) and Telangana (50%).
  • Bihar (50%) has the highest percentage of MPs with serious criminal cases followed by Telangana (9%), Kerala (10%), Maharashtra (34%) and Uttar Pradesh (37%).
  • 139 (36%) out of 385 MPs from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 43 (53%) out of 81 MPs from the Congress, 14 (39%) out of 36 MPs from the Trinamool Congress (TMC), 5 (83%) out of 6 MPs from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), 6 (75%) out of 8 MPs from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M),
  • 3 (27%) out of 11 MPs from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), 13 (42%) out of 31 MPs from YSRCP and 3 (38%) out of 8 MPs from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
  • 32 MPs have declared cases of ‘attempt to murder’ (IPC Section 307). Twenty-one Sitting MPs have declared cases related to crimes against women. Out of them, 4 MPs have declared cases related to rape (IPC Section 376).
  • The average assets per MP from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha is ₹38.33 crore. The average assets of MPs with declared criminal cases is ₹50.03 crore while that of MPs with no criminal cases is ₹30.50 crore.
  • Telangana (24 MPs) has the highest average assets of MPs with the average assets worth ₹262.26 crore, followed by Andhra Pradesh (36 MPs) with average assets worth ₹150.76 crore and Punjab (20 MPs) with average assets of ₹88.94 crore.
Source- Hindustan times

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