53 MPs of the Lok Sabha face disqualification

Supreme Court’s judgment dated 10th March, 2014 directed all trial courts to expedite and conclude cases against MPs and MLAs within one year from the date of framing of charges.
In this connection, Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW) today released a list of 53 MPs of the 16thLok Sabha against whom charges have been framed under Sections 8(1), 8(2) & 8(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. According to the Supreme Court judgment of 10th July 2013 (Lily Thomas and Ors vs Union of India and Ors), these MPs will face disqualification if convicted in the above cases.
The push towards de-criminalization of politics has been strengthened by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s recent speech in the Rajya Sabha, where he emphasized on the urgent need to cleanse the Parliament of members with tainted records through the judicial mechanism within one year. ADR and NEW welcome this statement of the Prime Minister on the floor of the Rajya Sabha. We urge and expect the Prime Minister to deliver his promise of a taint free Parliament by 2015. Towards this end, ADR and NEW urge the Prime Minister to: Write to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to ensure that all pending criminal cases against MPs are decided within one year of the date the results of the election were announced and get a unanimous resolution passed both Houses of Parliament requesting the Chief Justice to ensure the above.

The following 10 MPs have declared criminal cases where the charges have been framed which fall under both Section 8(1) and 8(3) of the RP Act:

S.No	Name of the MP	Party	Constituency
1	Brij Bhusan Sharan Singh	BJP	Kaiserganj
2	Mahesh Giri	BJP	East Delhi
3	Uma Bharti	BJP	Jhansi
4	Dr.Murli Manohar Joshi	BJP	Kanpur
5	Lal Krishna Advani	BJP	Gandhinagar
6	Nalin Kumar Katil	BJP	Dakshina Kannada
7	Suresh Angadi	BJP	Belgaum
8	Ganesh Singh	BJP	Satna
9	Shrimant Chh. Udayanraje Pratapsinha Bhonsale	NCP	Satara
10	Anbumani Ramadoss	Pattali Makkal Katchi	Dharmapuri

MPs with Highest Number of declared criminal cases where charges have been framed which fall under Section 8(1) and/or 8(3) of the RP Act (the complete list is in the report):

S.No	Name	Party	Constituency	Total Cases
1	Rajesh Ranjan Urf Pappu Yadav	RJD	Madhepura	13
2	Shrimant Chh. Udayanraje Pratapsinha Bhonsale	NCP	Satara	6
3	P Karunakaran	CPI(M)	Kasaragod	6
4	Tathagata Satpathy	BJD	Dhenkanal	6
5	Adv.Joice George	IND	Idukki	4
6	P K Sreemathi	CPI(M)	Kannur	4

Party wise MPs with declared criminal cases where charges have been framed which fall under Section 8(1) and/or 8(3) of the RP Act:

Party	Number of MPs
BJP	24
Shiv Sena	5
AITC	4
AIADMK	3
RJD	3
CPI(M)	2
INC	1
JMM	1
LJP	1
NCP	1
Pattali Makkal Katchi	1
Revolutionary Socialist Party	1
BJD	1
All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen	1
Swabhimani Paksha	1
TRS	1
IND	2
Total	53

First time Lok Sabha MPs with declared criminal cases where charges have been framed which fall under Section 8(1) and/or 8(3) of the RP Act:

S.No	Name	Party	State	Constituency
1	V.Sathyabama	AIADMK	Tamil Nadu	Tiruppur
2	Vijay Kumar Hansdak	JMM	Jharkhand	Rajmahal
3	Ashwini Kumar	BJP	Haryana	Karnal
4	Jadhav Sanjay (Bandu) Haribhau	Shiv Sena	Maharashtra	Parbhani
5	Hari G	AIADMK	Tamil Nadu	Arakkonam
6	P K Sreemathi	CPI(M)	Kerala	Kannur
7	Bhairon Prasad Mishra	BJP	Uttar Pradesh	Banda
8	Kunwer Sarvesh Kumar	BJP	Uttar Pradesh	Moradabad
9	Naba Kumar Sarania	IND	Assam	Kokrajhar
10	Saumitra Khan	AITC	West Bengal	Bishnupur
11	Parbhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava	BJP	Gujarat	Bardoli
12	Barne Shrirang Chandu	Shiv Sena	Maharashtra	Maval
13	A.Arunmozhithevan	AIADMK	Tamil Nadu	Cuddalore
14	B Sreeramulu	BJP	Karnataka	Bellary
15	Balka Suman	TRS	Andhra Pradesh	Peddapalle
16	Shewale Rahul Ramesh	Shiv Sena	Maharashtra	Mumbai South Central
17	Vinayak Bhaurao Raut	Shiv Sena	Maharashtra	Ratnagiri Sindhudurg
18	Lallu Singh	BJP	Uttar Pradesh	Faiz