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 attempting to regain energy in the state. Meanwhile, a sharp look at the 2016 Assembly Election benefits has thrown some exciting details that reflect upon the voting pattern in India’s most literate state. Association of Democratic Reforms has issued a detailed evaluation report on the preceding assembly election benefits displaying that 65 per cent of the state’s elected legislators have criminal circumstances registered against them.
The ADR analysed 132 sitting MLAs and located that 86 (65 per cent) MLAs have declared criminal circumstances against themselves whilst 28 (21 per cent) MLAs have declared really serious criminal circumstances against them. Two sitting MLAs have declared circumstances associated to murder whilst 6 MLAs have declared circumstances associated to try to murder against them. One MLA has declared a case associated to Crime against Women against him.
If we speak about party-sensible sitting MLAs with criminal circumstances, 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 circumstances declared against them.
Those with really serious criminal circumstances incorporate 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 dollars energy in the Kerala legislature. “Out of 132 sitting MLAs analysed, 57 (43 per cent) are crorepatis. Detailing it party-sensible, 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 (one hundred 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 typical assets per sitting MLA are Rs 2.03 crore. The top rated 3 MLAs with higher assets are Beypore CPI(M) MLA V KC Mammed Koya with more than Rs 30 crore asset, Pathanapuram Kerala Congress (B) MLA K.B. Ganesh Kumar with assets worth more than Rs 22 crore and Perinthalmanna IUML MLA Ali Manjalamkuzhi with assets worth more than 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 in between 5th pass and 12th pass whilst 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 females.