Kerala Assembly Election 2021: The ADR analysed 132 sitting MLAs and found that 86 MLAs have declared criminal cases against themselves while 28 MLAs have declared serious criminal cases against them.
Kerala Assembly Election 2021: In the 'God's Own Country', the average assets per sitting MLA are Rs 2.03 crore. (PTI)Elections to the 140-member Kerala Assembly will be held on April 6. While the CPI(M)-led LDF governs the state with 91 seats, the Congress-led UDF is trying to regain power in the state. Meanwhile, a sharp look at the 2016 Assembly Election results has thrown some interesting facts that reflect upon the voting pattern in India’s most literate state. Association of Democratic Reforms has issued a detailed analysis report on the previous assembly election results showing that 65 per cent of the state’s elected legislators have criminal cases registered against them.
The ADR analysed 132 sitting MLAs and found that 86 (65 per cent) MLAs have declared criminal cases against themselves while 28 (21 per cent) MLAs have declared serious criminal cases against them. Two sitting MLAs have declared cases related to murder while 6 MLAs have declared cases related to attempt to murder against them. One MLA has declared a case related to Crime against Women against him.
If we talk about party-wise sitting MLAs with criminal cases, 51 (91 per cent) out of 56 MLAs of CPI(M), 12 (63 per cent) out of 19 MLAs from CPI, 9 (45 per cent) out of 20 MLAs from Congress, 5 (28 per cent) out of 18 MLAs from IUML and 4 (67 per cent) out of 6 independent MLAs have criminal cases declared against them.
Those with serious criminal cases include 18 (32 per cent) out of 56 MLAs from CPI(M), 3 (16 per cent) out of 19 MLAs from CPI, 2 (11 per cent) out of 18 MLAs from IUML and 5 (25 per cent) out of 20 MLAs from Congress.
The report also indicates the presence of money power in the Kerala legislature. “Out of 132 sitting MLAs analysed, 57 (43 per cent) are crorepatis. Detailing it party-wise, the report stated, “15 (27 per cent) out of 56 MLAs from CPI(M), 14 (78 per cent) out of 18 MLAs from IUML, 12 (60 per cent) out of 20 MLAs from Congress, 4 (100 per cent) out of 4 MLAs from Kerala Congress (M) and 3 (50 per cent) out of 6 MLAs from Independent have declared assets valued more than Rs 1 crore.
In the ‘God’s Own Country’, the average assets per sitting MLA are Rs 2.03 crore. The top three MLAs with high assets are Beypore CPI(M) MLA V KC Mammed Koya with over Rs 30 crore asset, Pathanapuram Kerala Congress (B) MLA K.B. Ganesh Kumar with assets worth over Rs 22 crore and Perinthalmanna IUML MLA Ali Manjalamkuzhi with assets worth over Rs 20 crore. Pattambi CPI MLA Muhammed Muhassin is a legislator with the lowest assets worth Rs 46,691.
The most literate state has elected 54 (41 per cent) MLAs with educational qualifications between 5th pass and 12th pass while 77 (58 per cent) MLAs are graduate or above and one MLA is only literate. Out of 132 MLAs analysed by the ADR, only 8 (6 per cent) MLAs are women.
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