31 TAINTED MLAs IN JHARKHAND COALITION

The new five-party coalition in Jharkhand has 31 MLAs with criminal cases against them. The coalition, headed by JMM, has 44 MLAs in the 81-member Assembly.
Leading the pack is Shibu Soren’s JMM whose 17 MLAs have criminal cases against them, the National Election Watch (NEW) said on the basis of affidavits of the elected legislators. The only JMM MLA, who has no criminal case against her, is Sita Soren, daughter-in-law of Shibu Soren and widow of Durga Soren. The BJP and AJSU have eight and four MLAs respectively with criminal cases against them. JMM’s Dumri MLA Jagannath Mahato is booked under 14 criminal cases while Soren’s son Hemant, the newly elected MLA from Dumka, has six cases against him. BJP’s Jharkhand unit president and a strong contender for the deputy chief minister’s post Raghubar Das is also charged with criminal cases. Among the BJP MLAs, Ranchi legislator C.P Singh has nine cases. Eleven of the 14 Congress MLAs also have cases against them while eight JVM(P) legislators and four RJD MLAs have cases against them.