ADR’s Analysis of candidates, MPs and MLAs who have declared crimes against women including rape

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“By giving tickets to candidates who have been charged with crimes against women especially rape, political parties have been in a way abetting to circumstances that lead to such events that they so easily but vehemently condemn in Parliament.

Candidates with a criminal background should be debarred from contesting elections and political parties should be forced to disclose the criteria on which candidates are given tickets.Cases against MPs and MLAs should be fast tracked and decided upon in a  time bound manner.

Summary and Highlights

MPs/ MLAs

6 MLAs have declared that they have charges of rape against themselves in their sworn  affidavits submitted with the Election Commission of India at the time of their election.

Of these 6 MLAs with declared rape cases, 3 are from SP namely Sribhagwan Sharma, Anoop Sanda and Manoj Kumar Paras from Uttar Pradesh, 1 from BSP namely Mohd. Aleem Khan from  Uttar Pradesh, 1 of BJP namely Jethabhai G.Ahir from Gujarat and 1 of TDP namely Kandikunta Venkata Prasad from Andhra Pradesh.

36 other MLAs have declared that they have other charges of crimes against women such as  outraging the modesty of a woman, assault, insulting the modesty of a woman etc.

Of the 36 MLAs who have declared that they have charges of crimes against women, 6 MLAs are  from INC , 5 from BJP and 3 from SP.

U.P. has the maximum number of MLAs (8) who have declared that they have charges of crimes  against women, followed by Orissa and West Bengal with 7 MLAs each.

2 MPs, namely Semmalai S of ADMK from Salem constituency in Tamil Nadu and Adhikari  Suvendu of AITC from Tamluk constituency in West Bengal, have declared that they have charges of crimes against women, such as cruelty and intent to outrage a woman’s modesty etc.”