Report reveals 88% Rajya Sabha MPs are filthy rich
new delhi — Nearly 90 per cent of the Rajya Sabha MPs are crorepatis while the average of total assets Upper House parliamentarians is Rs 550 million, says a report.
The report is based on an analysis of the self-sworn affidavits of 229 out of 233 sitting Rajya Sabha MPs by the National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).
“Out of the 229 sitting Rajya Sabha MPs analysed, 201 (88 per cent) are crorepatis,” a report by Delhi-based think-tank ADR said on Sunday, adding “the average of assets per Rajya Sabha MP is Rs 556.2 million”.
Mahendra Prasad of Janata Dal (United) has the highest assets worth Rs 40.78 billion among the Rajya Sabha MPs.
Samajwadi Party’s Jaya Bachchan is at second place with assets worth Rs 10.01 billion, followed by BJP’s Ravindra Kishore Sinha with assets worth Rs 8.57 billion.
Among major parties, the average asset size per parliamentarian of 64 BJP MPs is Rs 278 million, while it is Rs 40.9 million for 50 belonging to the Congress.
The average asset size of 14 Samajwadi Party MPs is Rs 926 million and of 13 All India Trinamool Congress MPs is Rs 122 million.
According to the report, of the 229 Rajya Sabha MPs, 51 have declared criminal cases against themselves. As many as 20 Rajya Sabha MPs have declared “serious criminal cases” against themselves.
Of the total MPs analysed, 154 have declared liabilities against themselves and the top three are Sanjay Dattatraya Kakade (Rs 3046 million), T Subbarami Reddy (Rs 1735 million) and Jaya Bachchan (Rs 1056 million). — PTI