New Delhi: Over 1024 current MPs and MLAs in India are facing charges of criminal offence. According to Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) which analyzes these poll affidavits of which 64 have been named in kidnapping cases.

It is noted that the politicians have declared the charges themselves in the poll affidavits filed by them.

 ADR reading these poll affidavits said that 16 are from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)  while the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal have six leaders from each party facing kidnapping charges.

MPs/MLAs from Other political parties appear in the list are Nationalist Congress Party, Biju Janata Dal, DMK, Samajwadi Party, Telugu Desam Party, Trinamool Congress, CPM, CPI-ML, SHS, Bhartiya Tribal Party, Janata Dal United, Lok Janshakti Party, Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal and Telangana Rashtra Samithi. In addition there are four independent members on the list.

 Worth mention here out of the MLAs with declared charges of kidnapping, most hail from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh with 9 elected representatives from each state. On the other hand Eight MLAs in Maharashtra and six from West Bengal also face kidnapping charges.

Gujarat, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh have three MLAs each while Odisha and Tamil Nadu have four MLAs each who are facing charges.

Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab and Telangana are other states in the list.

It is noted that Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav is the Member of Parliament with the maximum number of kidnapping charges in its name and he has been charged with six cases of kidnapping. LJP’s Rama Kishore Singh who is Another MP from Bihar, facing four cases of kidnapping.

Lok Sabha MPs – Naba Kumar Sarania (IND) of Assam, Sarfaraz Alam (RJD) of Bihar and Udayan Pratapsinha Bhonsale (NCP) of Maharashtra also are 3 more MPs featured in the list.

Dhoot Rajkumar Nandlal (SHS) and Narayan Tatu Rane (BJP) from Maharashtra and Samajwadi Party’s Chandrapal Singh Yadav from Uttar Pradesh are Rajya Sabha MPs who are facing kidnapping charges .