CRIMINAL CASES PENDING AGAINST 17 ODISHA MLAS, TWO MPS

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CRIMINAL CASES PENDING AGAINST 17 ODISHA MLAS, TWO MPS

Friday, 12 July 2013 | KISHORE MANGARAJ | BHUBANESWAR | in Bhubaneswar

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Wednesday’s Supreme Court verdict that convicted MPs and MLAs will be disqualified from their respective membership will have a lot of bearings in the Odisha politics as many of State legislators are facing a number of criminal charges.

Although no elected MP or MLA in Odisha has been convicted as yet, several cases are pending against many of them.

Except Dhenkanal Lok Sabha member Tathagata Satpathy, who is two-time MP having defamation charges pending (as he is also editor of an Odia daily), all 20 MPs and MLAs are facing more than one criminal charge pending against them.

The analysis of the affidavits of the candidates in 2004 Assembly election indicated that political parties opted for candidates having less criminal background. As per the Association for Democratic Reforms(ADR) report in 2004 Indian National Congress had 30 candidates with pending criminal charges out of total 136 contested, BJP had 19 out of 66, BJD had 22 out of 84 contested.

As per the report of the ADR, out of 1288 candidates who contested in 2009 Assembly election, 295 candidates had criminal cases against them while serious criminal cases like murder, kidnapping and extortion are pending against 191 candidates.

As stated by affidavits of 147 MLAs of the Assembly, 48 MLAs — that is, 33 per cent — have criminal cases pending against them. There are 11 Congress, 4 BJP and 27 BJD MLAs have pending criminal cases against them. Out of there 48 MLAs with pending criminal cases 31 have pending serious criminal cases against them. Party wise break up for MLAs with pending serious criminal cases - 7 of INC, 3 of BJP, 18 of BJD and 2 MLAs belonging to other parties. 

While ruling BJD MLA of Pipili Pradeep Maharathy has 29 cases pending against him, 23 against Sanakhemundi Congress MLA Ramesh Chandra Jena, 17 against G Udyagiri BJP MLA Monoj Kumar Pradhan, 12 agaisnt Biramitrapur MLA (independent) Gorge Tirkey, 7 each against Bonai BJP MLA Bhimsen Choudhury and BJD’s Nimapada MLA Sameer Ranjan Dash, five against Polsara BJD MLA Niranjan Pradhan, three against Bijepur Congress MLA  Subal Sahu and Parjang BJD MLA Dr Nrushingha Sahu, and two each against Anandpur BJD MLA Bhagirathy Sethy, Chandabali BJD MLA Bijaya Nayak, Kanabanjhi Congress MLA Santosh Singh Saluja, Jatni BJD MLA Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray, Brajarajnagar Congress  MLA Anup Kumar Sai, Kamakhyanagar  BJD MLA Prafull Kumar Malick, Bhatali BJD MLA Sushanta Singh and Phulbani BJD MLA Debendra Kahanr.

Similarly, Balangir BJD MP Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo has two criminal cases pending against him while one is pending against Kalahandi Congress MP Bhakta Charan Das.

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