Rajya Sabha's crorepatis' club expands

And six candidates elected recently had serious criminal cases pending on them

GN Bureau | June 21, 2010




The UB’s group chairman Vijay Mallya is the richest person with Rs 615 crore net worth to enter the Rajya Sabha in the recently concluded elections for 55 seats. He also admitted to having criminal cases against him. “Dr Vijay Mallya (IND from Karnataka) has declared cases related to FERA act and cheating and dishonesty pending against him,” said the survey conducted by Association for Democratic Reforms, an election watchdog association.

Some observations of the politicians in their net worth were quite interesting:

•    78 percent of the 55 candidates elected to the Upper House have assests of Rs 25 crore on average. Ram Vilas Paswan – Rs. 2 crore, Anand Sharma of Congress, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, BJP – Rs 4 crore, Venkiah Naidu, BJP – Rs 8 crore, Chandan Mitra (BJP), owner of the Pioneer daily newspaper – 9.41 crore, Satish Chandra Mishra (BSP) – Rs 24 crore, Kanwar Deep Singh (JMM) – Rs. 83 crore.

•    Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh turned out to be poor in term of wealth among the recent elected member. His wealth is modest Rs 62 lakh.
According to report “A total of 15 (i.e.28 percent) candidates declared in their affidavits that they have pending criminal cases against them, said the report. Out of these 15 candidates with pending criminal cases, 6 candidates declared serious criminal cases pending on them – including that of attempt to murder, wrongful confinement & related to cheating and forgery. All the candidates with pending criminal cases have won the elections.

The report added that most parties nominated candidates with pending criminal cases. INC nominated 3 candidates with pending criminal cases out of 16 candidates. BJP nominated 2 out of 11 such candidates, BSP nominated 1 out of 7 such candidates. NCP nominated 2 out of 2 such candidates. 

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