46% MPs Have Criminal Records, 93% Are Crorepatis, Only 14% Women: ADR Report

Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) report was compiled on the basis of criminal records, financial background, gender details, educational qualifications and age group. This time, there is an increase in crorepati MPs numbering 504 (93%) as compared to 475 (88%) MPs in 2019, writes ETV Bharat's Saurabh Sharma.

New Delhi: Only 74 women candidates amounting to a mere 14 per cent secured victory in the recently counted 18th Lok Sabha elections out of a total of 543 while 251 (46%) MPs have criminal cases against them while 504 (93%) are 'crorepatis'.

Criminal records

According to the latest report by the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), out of the 543 winning candidates analysed in Lok Sabha 2024, 251 (46%) winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. As many as 170 (31%) winning candidates in Lok Sabha 2024 Elections have declared serious criminal cases including cases related to rape, murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, crimes against women etc while for the year 2019, it was 159(29%) MPs who has serious criminal cases against them.

For the year 2019 Lok Sabha elections, out of 539 MPs analysed 233(43%) MPs had declared criminal cases against themselves. With regard to the party wise criminal cases against the winning candidate who'll now be occupying the seats in the Parliament, 63(26%) out of 240 Winning candidates are from BJP, 32(32%) out of 99 Winning candidates from Congress, 17 (46%) out of 37 Winning candidates are from SP, 7(24%) out of 29 Winning candidates fielded by Trinamool Congress and others.

Financial background

Out of the 543 Winning candidates analysed, 504 (93%) are crorepatis. While for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, out of 539 MPs analysed 475 (88%) MPs were crorepatis.

In this case, the ruling party BJP bagged the top post in this list with 227(95%) out of 240 Winning candidates from BJP, 92 (93%) out of 99 Winning candidates from Congress, 21 (95%) out of 22 Winning candidates from DMK, 27(93%) out of 29 Winning candidates fielded by Trinamool Congress, 3(100%) out of 3 Winning candidates by AAP, 12(100%) out of 12 Winning candidates from JD(U) and 16(100%) Winning candidates from TDP have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.

Amongst the top three richest candidates in this list, Dr Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani from TDP bags the top list with assets over Rs 5705 crores followed by Konda Vishweshwar Reddy from Telangana (BJP) having assets of more than Rs 4568 crore and Industrialist

Naveen Jindal (Haryana) from BJP with more than Rs 1241 crores. Amongst the top 10 richest candidates, five are from BJP, three are from TDP while two are from Congress.

The three top most candidates with lowest assets are Jyotirmay Singh Mahato (BJP) from West Bengal with Rs 5 lakhs + followed by Mitali Bag from TMC with Rs 7 lakhs + and Priya Saroj from Samajwadi Party with Rs 11 lakhs+.