An Analysis of Newly Elected MPs to Lok Sabha 2024 and Way forward for this Great Nation

Before we start analyzing the 2024 Lok Sabha elections , I want to take a flash back of the political scenario changes from Independence,?

When Mahatma Gandhi gave a call for youngsters to join the freedom movement, many youngsters and who were doing well professionally left everything and joined the freedom movement like Patel, Rajaji, et all –

So the politicians who donned the Lok sabha and Rajya Sabha membership were people who fought for freedom, educationists, social workers and so on who had country s interest in mind

For eg, K Kamaraj, who was CM of Madras ( Now Tamil Nadu) and was President of Indian National Congress when he passed away he had a few? lungies, shirts and few hundred rupees and Lal bahudur sastri, PM of India , was so strict with his family that Govt? Assets should not be used for personal purposes? - In the recent past Shri Kalyan Singh, CM of UP, reprimanded his son when he took his official vehicle for personal purpose

Jokingly it was said in Tamil Nadu , that when Gandhi called for freedom all right minded person came to join the freedom movement but when Karunanidhi called the youth to join DMK,people who were rowdies, anti social elements , thought they are being called and joined the party – This is evident from the various actions of that party in the past 50 years?

Some data based on the elections results for Lok Sabha 2024

41 parties have been elected vs 36 parties? In 2019,

National parties have won 346 seats (64%). Parties recognised as state parties won 179 seats (33%). 11 seats unrecognised parties, and 7 by independents.

52% of newly-elected MPs are first-timers

262 MPs elected to the 18th Lok Sabha have previously served as members of Lok Sabha.??

The average age of MPs elected to the 18thLok Sabha is 56 years; this was 59 years in the 17th Lok Sabha.?

7% of MPs elected to the 18thLok Sabha are lawyers, and 4% are medical practitioners.

Many MPs declared agriculture and social work as their profession

A total of 233 MPs (43 per cent) had declared criminal cases against themselves, 185 (34 per cent) in 2014, 162 (30 per cent) in 2009 and 125 (23 per cent) in 2004. According to the analysis, there has been a 55 per cent increase in the number of MPs with declared criminal cases since 2009.

Of the 251 winning candidates this year, 170 (31 per cent) face serious criminal cases, including rape, murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, and crimes against women. ( they enact laws and are supposed to protect women and children – Where are we heading as a nation – Very dangerous path we are leading the country to and there seems to no concrete steps by the political class to make course corrections and they say it is due to political compulsions )

As many as 251 (46 per cent) of the 543 newly elected Lok Sabha members have criminal cases registered against them and 27 of them have been convicted, according to an analysis by poll rights body Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR).

74 MPs (14%) elected to the 18th Lok Sabha are women. This is marginally lower than in 2019, when 78 women were elected

About 504 or 93 per cent of the 543 MPs elected to the 18th Lok Sabha are crorepatis, which is a significant increase compared to the previous two general elections

Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, Telugu Desam Party – 5705 crs Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, Bharatiya Janata Party – 4568 crs

Naveen Jindal, BJP - Rs 1,241 crore

Prabhakar Reddy Vemireddy, TDP – 716 crs

CM Ramesh, BJP – 497 crs

Jyotiraditya Scindia, BJP – 424 crs

Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, Conngress – 342 crs

Sribharat Mathukumilli, TDP – 298 crs

Hema Malini, BJP – 278 crs

Prabha Mallikarjun, Congress – 241 crs?

?Candidates who were in Opposition but joined BJP and who won the elections ?include at least 16 from the Congress, 8 from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, 2 each from the?Aam Aadmi Party?(AAP) and the YSR Congress and 1 each from the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), and the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC).MPs who were in opposition now part of current govt and Ministers too ?

1 in 4 in Congress list, 1 in 5 in BJP’s from political families for lok Sabha nominations in 2024

When India attained independence 74 years ago, it broke free from two kinds of dynastic rule. It severed ties with the British crown, and it integrated more than 500 princely states into the Indian union.

But over the decades, another form of dynastic rule emerged in the country: that of elected political dynasties. The best known of these dynasties is the Nehru-Gandhi family, which dominated the prime ministership and the leadership of the Congress party after Independence for than half century

Given the churn in politics, not all those from political families contesting these elections are doing so for the same party as their elders ?as the next generation decides to cross over parties where they can win the electoral battle and do not care for the ideology etc , which is called Pragmatic Politics now – This perpetuates the emerging of political families for the past few decades hence politics has become a “ separate club” for the chosen few and the normal population

The Bharatiya Janata Party is often described as a non-dynastic party. But that’s just not true—though it is, indeed, true that the BJP is less dynastic than the Congress. The BJP’s prime minister and president are not from political families, and only 15 percent of its current MPs are dynastic, compared to the Congress’s 48 percent

Political scientist Rahul Verma who did his doctoral dissertation on political families said the trend of candidates from political families has only gone up. “While the share of such members in BJP is increasing with time, it’s still likely to be higher in the Congress for the forseeable future,’’ said Verma. He added that the BJP has managed to target dynastic politics by drawing a distinction between the political families that have been with it, as compared to entire parties built around one family.

Why are dynasties so common across parties? One argument is that they are a product of India’s unique cultural values. The former BBC journalist Mark Tully, for example, has argued that “It is India’s strong family traditions, so different to the nuclear families in the West, that justify dynasts in the eyes of voters. In India, it’s widely thought to be natural and acceptable for a father or a mother who has any form of power to want to hand it over to a son or a daughter.”

As a senior citizen of this great country, I am really worried , where are we heading as a nation, where money is might and nothing else matters – No political parties is immune from all the ills of criminals in politics, corruption, false narratives, fear mongering, dividing on religion, creating caste rivalry and the list is endless

What is the future of the kids of this great nation, our founding fathers had great dreams for this Nation and the next generations have floundered the hard won freedom by the sacrifices of our freedom fighters who will be thinking why did? we fought freedom for – In fact many people have lost hope whether there can be a turn around annulling the past actions by the political class which has to lead this reformation

Today electoral politics is at the lowest ebb where both the ruling and opposition rhetoric has gone to the lowest pith and the ambition to win elections

I request the readers to throw light and introspect in your circle of friends to create a eco system however small it might be

I am eternal optimist and I am sure Bharat Mata will have some plans to take this great nation to its place where it deserves to be

Lastly the youth of this country I am sure will make this happen

Jai Hind

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