Self sworn affidavits giving details of criminal cases collected for 219 current Rajya Sabha MPs from different state assembly secretariat submitted at time of their election to Rajya Sabha
37 MPs of current Rajya Sabha (out of 219, i.e. 17%) had criminal cases pending against them according to self sworn affidavits filed at time of their election to Rajya Sabha
Out of these 37 current MPs of Rajya Sabha with pending criminal cases, 12 MPs (out of 219, i.e. 5%) had serious criminal cases pending against them according to self sworn affidavits filed at time of their election to Rajya Sabha
Annual asset and liability declarations collected for 183 Rajya Sabha members from Rajya Sabha secretariat
98 (out of 183, i.e. 54%) MPs in current Rajya Sabha are crorepatis
Number of women MPs very low in Rajya Sabha (9%)
NEW members Mr. LC Jain (Former member of Planning Commission), Mr. IC Dwivedi ( Former DGP UP), Mr. N Gopalaswami (Former CEC) and others ask parties to act on growing influence of crime and money in politics
Delhi, April 06, 2010: Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW), a nationwide campaign comprising of more than 1200 NGOs and other citizen led organizations, has been working on electoral reforms, improving democracy and governance in India.
NEW and ADR have analyzed affidavits of 219 Rajya Sabha members furnished by them at time of their election to Rajya Sabha. We have also analysed asset and liability information available for 183 members for the year 2008‐2009 from the Rajya Sabha Secretariat. Executive summary is given below‐
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