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Most Allegedly Corrupt Indian Politicians

While everyone has been animatedly supporting Anna Hazare's fight against corruption, people seem to have forgotten who the people are who actually led to this situation.

Corruption is a form of fraud and dishonest conduct by those in power. Corruption occurs at the smallest and highest levels of government, government officials who are in power use the resources for their own deed instead of using them for public purposes. Corruption in India affects all the levels of society especially the administrative level who are damaging real bad the economy of the India.

Instability and inequalities are the major problems occur due to corruption of the country. Due to corruption India is facing high challenges weather its poverty, education, health, or clean water. Corruption in India looks like a civil servant sometimes nothing is happening without doing corruption and has become the favorite contest nationwide. Due to low level of enforcement and monitoring policies on the state level bodies causing corruption. Indian National Congress is among the top most corrupt political parties in India.

Karunanidhi (Died)

The corruptions charges against M. Karunanidhi are so many that he is often referred to as the king or emperor of corruption. He was accused of lending support to the LTTE and was indicted for abetting the LTTE in the initial interim report which oversaw the investigation into Rajiv Gandhi's assassination.

Karunanidhi reportedly institutionalized corruption in the South. He was said to be a leading player in the cash for votes scams that are common in the southern region, as well as notorious for extreme nepotism shown under his rule. Not so surprising, is the fact that the main accused in the 2G scam, A, Raja, considers him to be his mentor.

Karunanidhi family is an Indian political family M. karunandhi has been the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for five terms, Corruption is a very favorite game for this famous political party, The biggest corruption scandal of 2G spam in which Mr.karunanidhi daughter was arrested with the Indian telecom minister Raja, Karunanidhi was also involved in this biggest corruption case in Indian history, Karunanidhi is the emperor of corruption. He was also blamed for allotting housing board and causing a 7.5 crors loss to a state when he was in power he is among the top corrupt people in the list.

Jayalalithaa (Died)

The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has a staggering 46 corruption cases against her. Amongst the various scams were the Rs. 70 million coal import scam, Tansi land deal case, case of disproportionate assets and colour TV case, amongst many others. A raid in her residence and business establishments reportedly led to the seizure of some 28 kg of jewellery (worth Rs 51 crore), 91 wrist-watches, 41 air-conditioners, 10,500 sarees, 750 pairs of footwears, etc. She along with her former cabinet colleagues and senior bureaucrats who worked with her are still facing investigation with regard to corruption.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

The fact that Lalu Prasad Yadav has been an accused in 63-odd cases serves for the fact that Lalu stands as one of the strongest competitor in the list. The biggest scam that rocked Lalu's political career was the fodder scam which involved the embezzlement of Rs. 950 crore approximately. The accusation of nepotism against him has come up time and again but hardly any action has been taken against him owing to his alleged 'connections' in the government.

Lalu Prasad Yadav is famous politician in India, he was the minister of railways in 2009 and before he was the chief minister of Bihar . The fodder scam is famous scandal which indicates the name of lalu Parsad Yadav which embezzlement of about 9.4 billion Indian rupees. The fodder scandal lead ministry of laloo to his end, he was arrested by courts orders and put in jail for five years in October 2013. He is one of the most corrupt politicians among all the Indian politicians. He is famous as a sharp colorful politician but he likes to promote caste based politics due to this reason hated by the many people.

Mayawati

Mayawati has always been criticized for ostentatious display of power in her state. She has allegedly used her status as chief minister to amass large amounts of personal wealth. She was charged with corruption when the Taj Heritage Corridor Case was uncovered. Mayawati's birthdays have often been media events, where she usually appears decked in diamond jewellery and also accepts public donations for which, she often comes under fire. Her assets are allegedly worth millions of dollars and in the year 2007-08, she had reportedly paid an income tax of Rs. 26 crores which placed her amongst the top 20 taxpayers of the year.

Mayawati an Indian politician served as the chief minister of Uttar Pardesh for four times. She is been considered as the idol of corruption in UP and also goddess of corruption. It is been said that the companies run by Mayawati and his brother has made 18000 percent profit which is very abnormal profit in just seven years, out of seven years Mayawati served as chief minister of Uttar Pardesh for five years. In fresh Supreme Court has agrees to hear PIL against the former chief minister of UP. Now CBI is investigating that how it is possible to make such profit in a short period of time. Mayawati became the symbol of corruption in UP.

Suresh Kalmadi

Suresh Kalmadi, almost single handedly caused a loss of hundreds of crores of rupees to the country. The Commonwealth Games, organized by Kalmadi was no less than a loot with numerous reports of the magnum opus event being soaked in corruption making headlines way before the Games had even started. Apparently, out of Rs. 70000 crores spent on the Games, only half of the amount was actually spent. Owing to his involvement in the scam, Kalmadi was charged with corruption and sent to Tihar jail.

Suresh Kalmadi is a member of biggest party Indian National Congress, senior sport administrative and he was Member of Parliament from PUNE till May 2014. He declares as a corrupt politician when he was chairman of Common wealth games and president of Indian Olympic in 2010. He has spend more time in jail due to corruption, misbehave, counterfeit and long list of other crimes. He has nothing done for the betterment of people but increases his assets and banks accounts.

A. Raja

A scam worth Rs. 176,000 crore had former Union Cabinet Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Andimuthu Raja at the centre. A. Raja as he is generally called, was the prime accused in the 2G spectrum scam, which was the largest that the country had seen in a long time. Following the shocking exposure, Raja was indicted and forced to resign. Presently, he is too has been lodged at the Tihar jail and is awaiting his trial.

Andimuthu Raja is also a corrupt leader he is involved in 2G scam, 2g spectrum scandal was an Indian telecommunications scam in which government officials and raja undercharged the mobile telephone companies for frequency allocation licenses. Rajas chose a famous telecommunication company and make a deal of 2.2 billion dollars deal in which he make almost 35 crors commission, later the favored firm tell CBI that Rajas was the main conspirator in 2G spam. Rajas also earn a huge turnover in real estate business in which he make Rs 755 crors in only two years he was the central minister in Chennai in that times in 2004 he is one of the most corrupt politician list in India.

Madhu Koda

Former Jharkand Chief Minister, and only the third independent legislator to assume the office of chief minister in India, Madhu Koda was responsible for a scam worth over Rs. 4000 crore. The man reportedly exploited the state's natural resources by licensing illegal mining leases and stashing away the wealth amassed during the undertaking. Furthermore, the Maoists were said to have received a 30% share of the booty. Koda was arrested on charges of money laundering and is still in prison following the rejection of numerous bail applications.

Madhu Koda has served as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand in 2006, he is one of the most corrupt politicians in Indian National Congress he was charged with laundering Money of Rs.4000 crores back in 2010. A special money-laundering court in Delhi has attached Koda’s properties worth 144 crores. He is a very powerful politician and the most corrupt politician as well, koda is also alleged to have purchased mines in Liberia which is worth 1.7 million dollars, he has booked under the prevention of money laundering act along with his three cabnit members. His investments are to be spread from Singapore to Thailand to Dubai to Liberia.

Mulayam Singh Yadav

Mulayam Singh Yadav is also accused as being one of the most corrupt ministers in the country despite not being directly involved in any major scams. Apart from his name being involved in appointments of tainted officers and mishandling of his power as chief minister, Mulayam Singh had one major allegation levelled against him– accumulation of disproportionate assets. The case drew limelight on his sons and daughter-in-law as they too were holders of the assests that amounted to crores of rupees.

Sharad Pawar

Very few people can miss the cosy relationship that Sharad Pawar shares with power and money that has been reported time and again. Every now and then, Pawar draws flak for alleged investments made by him and his family in various illegal projects. He was named by Abdul Karim Telgi, during a narcoanalysis test, stating that it was Pawar's brainchild to print fake stamp papers across the country and mint money. He was also accused in a multi-crore scam involving wheat imports and institutions headed by him and his close associates were served notices by the Bombay High Court for showing favoritism to his family.

Corruption is ended on his end and become richest politician in India from the state of Maharashtra he is entered in politics in 1967 as a member of undivided Congress party. He is president of nationalist Congress party and previously attended as Chief Minister of Maharashtra on three different posts like Minister of defense, Minister of Agriculture in Government of India. As a minister of agriculture Sharad Pawar systematically accused of conspire in the increase in amounts of agriculture products and then farmer suicide rate rise 10000 per year. Sharad Pawar and his family involve major project of corruption and he is declare most corrupt politician in the India.

BS Yeddyurappa

The most recent politician to be caught in the web of corruption is former Chief Minister of Karnataka, B. S. Yeddyurappa. While he allegedly has a number of corruption cases lying against him, the one that toppled his career was his alleged involvement in the illegal iron ore export scam in various districts of Karnataka. A lot of blame game followed and ended up with Yeddyurappa losing his ministerial post last month. Despite his denial, his image as one of the most corrupt politicians of the country that has been built, will not fade anytime soon.

Digvijay Singh

He is most corrupt politician in India and earns a lot of money from Indian government through illegal ways and with poor behavior. He is a general secretary of Indian national congress also Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, during 1980 TO 1984 he was a Chief Minister Arjun Singh’s cabinet. Digvijay Singh speaking too much on the issue of corruption these days but he deeply involved in corruption and Jabalpur high court issue order to inquiry against him he is hated by many people. In 2018 he is declare a most corrupt politician in the India and he is also responsible for all the blasts of Mumbai.


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