DNA (13 July 2012) provides following interesting figures:
- Only 1 % of India’s people are Crorepaties
- But , 48 % of our elected MPs are !
- State wise distribution of Crorepaties :
· 92 % of those
elected from Goa
· 86 % of those
elected from Punjab
· 72 % of those
elected from Haryana
- Individual Ranking of Crorepaties :
· Mahendra Prasad
( JD-U )………………Rs. 692.41 Crores
· Vijaya
Mallya……………………………………Rs. 615.42 Crores
· Jaya
Bachhan…………………………………Rs. 483.86 Crores
- Party wise distribution of Crorepaties :
· Bahujan Samaj
Party………………………………….. 69 %
· Nationalist
Congress Party………………………….. 68 %
· Samajwadi
Party…………………………………………… 63 %
Our Election Commission has laid down several criteria which “ Disqualify
“ a candidate from contesting an election
But our political parties seem to have laid down a single “ Qualifying “
criteria ,for distributing candidature tickets to hopefuls , viz :
“ Thou shall be a Crorepati to begin with ,
It is entirely up to you what you end-up with “
Hemen Parekh