Indian members of Parliament are a bunch of crooks. This is not say they are any less bent than ours. It is just that their police are more honest than ours. E.g. the Metropolitan police commissioner, a patter merchant called Hogan does not hesitate to ignore crime reports when the perpetrator is a Racist Pakistani called Ahmed. He would probably claim that it is not perverting the course of justice when he does it. One of these comedians is facing 46 charges including murder. One party has 80% of its men in the frame.
In this edition of The Numbers Story we have visually mapped MPs of the 15th Lok Sabha who are facing criminal charges.
Refer the key at the bottom right corner of the map to get idea of which states have sent the most number of MPs, who are facing criminal charges. If you hover your mouse over any state, it will give you a mini-breakdown of MPs facing criminal charges from Congress and BJP.
As you can see in the table above, 50% of Jharkhand MPs face criminal charges. Second comes Maharashtra, third Gujarat, fourth Bihar and fifth Uttar Pradesh.
The above graphic breaks down the data into various political parties.
The Shiv Sena tops the list of most party MPs facing criminal charges. 80% of its 10 MPs in the parliament face criminal charges. BJP comes second with 41.07% of its 112 MPs, JD(U) is third with 36.84% of its 19 MPs, and so on.
Kameshwar Baitha, an outgoing MP from Jharkhand, faces 46 criminal charges; of which most of them are serious charges ranging from murder to attempted murder. CPI (M) leader R.B Rajesh and Shiv Sena leader Chandrakant Bhaurao face 16 criminal charges each.