References have been received from President and Governors of various states by the EC against these lawmakers which were under various stages of consideration, the EC said.
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Tuesday put on its website a list of 43 MPs, including Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, Union Ministers Pranab Mukherjee, Sharad Pawar, Meira Kumar and T Subbirami Reddy and more than 200 MLAs including several Chief Ministers whose disqualification has been sought for allegedly holding office of profit.
References have been received from President A P J Abdul Kalam and Governors of various states by the Election Commission against these lawmakers which were under 'various stages of consideration', the EC said.
The names of Congress President Sonia Gandhi and industrialist Anil Ambani also figure in the list but the two have since resigned from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha respectively after the office of profit controversy broke out last month in the wake of disqualification of actress-turned-MP Jaya Bachchan.
The complaint against Sonia Gandhi was also declared by the Commission as ‘infructuous’ after her resignation.
Other prominent MPs against whom complaints have been made included Karan Singh, Najma Heptullah, Ajit Singh, V K Malhotra, Amar Singh, Sajan Kumar, Anuradha Chowdhury, N Jothi and Naveen Jindal.
Chief Ministers against whom references have been made included those of Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh as also Leader of Opposition in Nagaland, several ministers in these states.
The names were displayed by the EC on its website on Tuesday evening in the wake of complaint by a Delhi doctor who accused it of violating the Right to Information Act and threatened to take appropriate steps to seek information on the references received by it.
Punjab has the dubious distinction of having the largest number of 37 references followed by Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh 25 each. While Jharkhand accounted for 21, Delhi has 20, Sikkim 17, Uttaranchal 14 and Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh 13 each.
More than one complaint has been filed against some MPs including two against the Lok Sabha Speaker.
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