New Delhi, Dec 14: A complete of twenty of the sixty five legislators re-elected to the Madhya Pradesh assembly have declared criminal cases against them, consistent with an organisation operating for electoral reforms.

“There are twenty re-elected MLAs (legislators) who have declared criminal cases in 2013. Out of those twenty, ten had declared criminal cases within the last assembly elections too,” the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Madhya Pradesh Election Watch (MPEW) aforesaid during a unleash when analyzing the affidavits of all 230 newly-elected legislators.

It aforesaid there has been a rise within the range of legislators with declared criminal cases in Madhya Pradesh assembly.

According to the handout, thirty two % or seventy three legislators have declared criminal cases against them, whereas when the 2008 polls, the figure was twenty six % or fifty eight legislators out of the 219 analysed.

The release also aforementioned that of the full a hundred and twenty candidates from the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and also the Bahujan Samaj Party who long-faced serious criminal cases, seventy seven lost the elections.

It aforesaid that forty eight of a hundred sixty five BJP legislators had declared criminal cases in 2013 whereas the quantity was twenty nine out of 138 in 2008. For the Congress, the quantity of legislatorss with criminal cases was twenty two of fifty eight in 2013 compared to twenty three of sixty six in 2008.

The release aforesaid that average plus of those sixty five re-elected lawmakers in 2013 was Rs seven.51 large integer whereas it absolutely was Rs. 1.92 crore in 2008.

As several as 161 (70 percent) out of 230 legislators were crorepatis whereas the quantity was eighty seven (40 percent) of the 219 analysed in 2008.

A total of seventy two % out of a hundred sixty five BJP legislators were crorepatis whereas forty % of fifty eight legislators of Congress were crorepatis.