INDIAN MP Qualifications, assets

• More than 300 MPs have assets worth over a crore in the new Lok Sabha.
• the Congress has 137 crorepatis, the BJP has 58.
• The richest MP is Telugu Desam Party's Namma Nageshwara Rao from Andhra Pradesh. He is worth Rs 173 crore.
• The combined assets of Indian MPs stand at Rs 3,075 crore. That is in a country where 28 crore people live below the poverty line.
• The poorest MP is Congress' Chandrahas Mahant, who won from Korba in Chhattisgarh. He has to his credit just Rs 12,000.
• The number of MPs with criminal antecedents has gone up to 153
• BJP list of criminal candidates with 42.
• Congress is a close second with 41.
• Uttar Pradesh tops the list with 31 of which 22 face serious charges.
• Maharashtra is second with 23.
• There is only one illiterate MP in the new Lok Sabha -- Pakodilal from Robertsganj in Uttar Pradesh.
• There are 130 postgraduate MPs and 23 MPs with doctoral degrees.
• The number of graduates is 237 while 47 have completed higher-secondary education.
• There are 300 MPs with liabilities. The man with the maximum liability is from Andhra Pradesh: Congeress' L Rajagopal with Rs 8 crore.
• There are 29 Muslim MPs now. In 2004, the number stood at 35.
• 369 parties -- including seven national parties -- contested the Lok Sabha polls 2009, but only 37 parties could open their account.

reference : www.rediff.com