Dharamsala, December 6, 2013: National Election Watch (NEW) has analyzed affidavits of 227 out of 245 MPs of Rajya Sabha.
Out of them 38 (17%) MPs, have declared criminal cases against themselves and 15 MPs (7%) of them have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.
Anurag Mittal, National Coordinator National Election Watch, in his e mail massage said the top 3 MPs with Serious Criminal Cases, among the 15 MPs are Prof. Baghel S.P. Singh of BSP from Uttar Pradesh has declared 1 case including charges related to Attempt to murder followed by Parvej Hashmi of INC from Delhi with 1 case including charges related to voluntarily causing grievous hurt and Thiru T.Rathinavel of AIADMK from Tamil Nadu with 1 case including charges related to undue influence or personation at an election.
Mittal said that according to the documents supplied, the average asset of the 227 Rajya Sabha MPs analyzed is Rs. 20.17 Crore, and its Party wise Average is as INC- Rs 16.74 crores, BJP is Rs 8.51 crores, BSP is Rs 13.82 crores, and CPI (M) it is Rs 39.65 Lacs.
Out of these 227 MPs rom Rajya Sabha, 153 (67%) are crorepatis.Mahendra Prasad of JD(U) from Bihar is the richest in the list with assets worth Rs 683.56 crores, followed by Dr.Vijaya Mallya, Independent member from Karnataka with Rs 615.42 crores and Jaya Amitabh Bachchan of SP from Uttar Pradesh with assets worth Rs. 493.86 crores.
On the other hand 9 MPs have declared assets worth less than Rs 20 Lakh. Anil Dave of BJP from Madhya Pradesh is the MP who has declared lowest assets worth Rs. 2.75 lakhs followed by Mohammed Nadimul of AITC from West Bengal who has declared assets worth Rs. 3.19 lakhs and Shymal Chakraborty of CPI (M) from West Bengal with assets worth Rs 5.47 lakhs.
32 (14%) MPs have not declared their PAN details.
A total of 190 (84%) are Graduates or higher educational qualification and 12 out of 227 (About 5%) are 10th Pass or below. there are only 20 women MPs in the Rajya Sabha. 3 MPs are above 80 years of age.
Date:
Friday, December 6, 2013