88 Percent Rajya Sabha MPs are Crorepatis

Update: 2018-03-25 10:38 GMT
As per Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), Close to 90 percent of existing Rajya Sabha MPs are crorepatis. 201 out of 229 Sitting Rajya Sabha Members are crorepatis, that's as much as 88 percent. Average of assets per Rajya Sabha MP is Rs 55.62 crore.

JD (U) MP Mahendra Prasad holds No.1 Position with a net worth of Rs 4,078.41 crore. While Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan is at 2nd Position with assets worth Rs 1,001.64 crore, BJP MP Ravindra Kishore Sinha stood at 3rd place with assets worth Rs 857.11 crore.

On an average, Each one of 64 BJP MPs have assets worth Rs 27.80 crore or more. This average is Rs 40.98 crore for 50 Congress MPs and Rs 92.68 for 14 SP MPs.

154 MPs have declared liabilities against themselves. Sanjay Dattatraya Kakade (Rs 304.60 crore), T Subbarami Reddy (Rs 173.59 crore) and Jaya Bachchan (Rs 105.65 crore) occupy the Top 3 spots in this list.

51 out of 229 MPs have declared criminal cases against them in the affidavit. Around 20 of them are facing serious charges.
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