Key Highlights of analysis by ADR and New Election Watch:
- 43% of the newly elected Lok Sabha MPs have declared criminal cases against themselves. In 2014, 34% declared criminal cases against themselves.
- 29% have declared serious criminal cases relating to rape, murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, crimes against women etc. This increases from 21% in 2014.
- 11 winners have murder charges against them.
- 29 winners have declared cases related to hate speech.
- Dean Kuriakose from the Congress, who won from the Idukki constituency in Kerala, has 204 criminal cases against him,
- Pragya Singh Thakur, the newly-elected BJP MP from Bhopal, faces terror charges in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blasts.
- The BJP has the highest number of crorepatis (116 of 301 analysed) but the Congress has a much higher share of crorepatis (43 out of 51).
