The electors in Haryana have sent 84 crorepatis to the 90-member State Assembly, results for which were declared on Thursday.
“Out of the 90 newly elected MLAs in Haryana, 84 of them (93%) are crorepatis” stated an analytical report by the Haryana Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).
In 2014, 75 out of 90 MLAs were crorepatis in the State Assembly.
The average assets per MLA in the new State Assembly is Rs 18.29 crores. Among political parties the crorepati legislators included 37 (93%) out of 40 MLAs from BJP, 29 out of 31 MLAs from Congress, 10 out of 10 elected MLAs from Jannayak Janta Party, 6 out of 7 Independent MLAs and 1 (100%) each MLAs from INLD and Haryana Lokhit Party, having declared assets valued more than Rs 1 crore.
Independent legislator Balraj Kundu from Meham in Rohtak district is richest legislator elected to State Assembly.
With assets worth Rs 141 crore, Balraj is followed by Congress’ Kuldeep Bishnoi, Adampur MLA with total assets worth Rs 105 cr and Haryana Lokhit Party’s Gopal Kanda, Sirsa MLA with Rs 95 crore assets.
As far as criminal cases are concerned, 12(13%) MLAs have declared criminal cases against themselves. Five of them have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.
Four Congress MLAs, two BJP MLAs, one JJP MLA , one INLD MLA, once HLP MLA and three independents have declared criminal cases against themselves.
Notably, out of elected 90 MLAs in previous Haryana Assembly (2014), 9 MLAs had declared criminal cases against themselves.
When it comes to tainted MLAs, former Minister Gopal Kanda tops the chart with nine criminal cases registered against him.
The cases included abetment of suicide (Sec 306), forgery for purpose of cheating (Sec 468), criminal breach of trust by public servant or by banker, merchant or agent (Sec 409), criminal intimidation (Sec 506), causing disappearance of evidence of offence (Sec 201), forgery of record of Court or of public register (Sec 466), forgery of valuable security, will etc (Sec 467) among others.
Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who is re-elected from Garhi Sampla Kiloi seat has seven criminal cases against him.