Karnataka Congress chief and Deputy Chief Minister D Okay Shivakumar has emerged because the wealthiest MLA within the state, with declared property price Rs 1,413 crore, based on a report by the Affiliation for Democratic Reforms, which additionally reveals that the state has a number of the wealthiest legislators in India, with a number of MLAs possessing property exceeding Rs 300 crore.
In response to the report on the monetary standing of MLAs throughout India, Karnataka leads in whole property, with its 223 MLAs holding a mixed wealth of Rs 14,179 crore. This interprets to a mean asset worth of Rs 63.58 crore per MLA, making Karnataka the second-richest state by way of common MLA property, after Andhra Pradesh.
Karnataka’s billionaire MLAs
Moreover D Okay Shivakumar, different high-net-worth MLAs from Karnataka embrace Okay H Puttaswamy Gowda (unbiased, Gauribidanur) – Rs 1,267 crore; Priyakrishna (Congress, Govindarajanagar) – Rs 1,156 crore; HK Suresh (BJP, Belur) – Rs 435 crore; Deshpande Raghunath (Congress, Haliyal) – Rs 363 crore; M R Manjunath (JD(S), Hanur) – Rs 316 crore; S N Subbareddy (Congress, Bagepalli) – Rs 313 crore; and Shamanur Shivashankarappa (Congress, Davanagere South) – Rs 312 crore. These figures point out that Karnataka has 31 billionaire MLAs, making up 14 per cent of the state’s whole legislators.
Nationwide comparability
Karnataka’s whole MLA wealth surpasses that of Maharashtra (Rs 12,424 crore) and Andhra Pradesh (Rs 11,323 crore). Whereas Andhra Pradesh holds the very best common wealth per MLA at Rs 65.07 crore, Karnataka follows intently behind at Rs 63.58 crore.
D Okay Shivakumar’s wealth locations him amongst India’s richest politicians. Compared, Maharashtra’s wealthiest MLA, the BJP’s Parag Shah, holds property price Rs 3,383 crore, making him India’s richest MLA.
Academic background of MLAs
Eighty-three of the Karnataka MLAs (37 per cent) have an training stage between Class 5 and 12 (together with diplomas), 114 MLAs (51 per cent) are graduates or maintain skilled levels and 26 MLAs (12 per cent) have postgraduate or increased levels.
This means that over 60 per cent of Karnataka’s legislators have at the least graduate-level training, positioning the state amongst these with a better share of educated representatives in comparison with states like Bihar and Maharashtra, the place a bigger proportion of MLAs have decrease academic {qualifications}.
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Prison instances towards Karnataka MLAs
Regardless of the excessive training ranges, the state nonetheless sees a major variety of legislators with felony backgrounds. The info reveals that 122 MLAs (55 per cent) have declared felony instances towards them. Seventy-two MLAs (32 per cent) have critical felony expenses, together with homicide, try and homicide, and crimes towards ladies.
Dharwad Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni, who has seven instances, together with one associated to homicide. The report additionally reveals that attempt-to-murder instances have been registered towards Sathish Reddy M (BJP, Bommanahalli), B Okay Sanagameshwara (Congress, Bhadravathi), and H C Balakrishna (Congress, Magadi).
In the meantime, crimes towards ladies have been registered towards nonagenarian Congress chief and Davangere South MLA Shamanur Shivashankarappa, in addition to Sanagameshwara, who faces 5 instances, together with a rape cost.
In comparison with different states, Karnataka ranks ninth within the nation for the proportion of MLAs with felony instances. In distinction, Andhra Pradesh has 79% MLAs with felony information, whereas Kerala and Telangana have 69% every, and Maharashtra and Bihar have 65% and 66%, respectively.
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Congress MLAs have extra felony instances than BJP, JD(S)
Congress legislators in Karnataka have the very best variety of felony instances, surpassing their counterparts from the Opposition BJP and JD(S).
>Congress: 52 per cent of its MLAs have declared felony instances and 30 per cent have critical expenses, together with these associated to homicide, try and homicide, and crimes towards ladies.
>BJP: 39 per cent of its MLAs have felony instances, whereas 26 per cent face critical expenses.
>JD(S): 40 per cent of its MLAs have felony instances, with 30 per cent dealing with critical expenses.