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TN Cabinet: 82% of Ministers including CM MK Stalin have criminal cases against them

As per the information from Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), 82% i.e., 28 of the 34 Ministers including Chief Minister MK Stalin himself have criminals cases against them.

Of this, 47% (16 Ministers including Chief Minister MK Stalin) have serious charges of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) slapped against them.

Chief Minister MK Stalin remains the chief in terms number of criminal cases with 47 cases against him. Ten of them are serious IPC charges.

SS Sivasankar, the Minister for Backward Classes Welfare, follows his leader with 46 criminal cases 7 of which are serious IPC charges. He holds the distinction of having 112 cases (the highest) booked under other IPC charges.

Data for 6 Minister were not available due to insufficient information.

12 Ministers which includes MRK Panneerselvam, Thangam Thennarasu, S Reghupathy, S Muthusamy, Geetha Jeevan, Sakkarapani, P Moorthy, Palanivel Thiagarajan, SM Nasar, Gingee KS Masthan, Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi and Mano Thangaraj do not have serious IPC charges.

DMK also leads the way in the Assembly having the largest number of MLAs with criminal case. Of the 125 MLAs analysed by ADR, 96 of them have criminal cases of which 39 MLClick here to subscribe to The Commune on Telegram and get the best stories of the day delivered to you personally.As have criminal cases of serious nature.

On the other hand, the opposition AIADMK which has won 66 MLAs have only 15 MLAs with criminal charges with only 5 of them having criminal cases of serious nature.

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