In India, the Income Tax Department has handed over names of those MPs and MLAs to the Supreme Court in a closed envelope whose income has increased wildly after the last two elections.

The Association for Democratic Reforms filed the application as a co-petitioner in the case filed by the NGO Lok Prahari in Lucknow. It has been argued that many people are collecting self-attested affidavits of their properties, which do not have information about their income tax returns.

According to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), which works in electoral reforms, the assets of the current four Lok Sabha MPs are 12 percent, while 22 others have declared their assets a five-fold increase. At the same time, the MPs elected to the Rajya Sabha have announced 21 times increase in their assets.

According to the ADR, seven newly elected Rajya Sabha MPs have announced two-fold increase in property. Giving an example of a wildly increase in the assets of MPs in just five years, the petitioner ADR said that property of four Lok Sabha members has increased by 1200 percent, while 22 other Lok Sabha members have increased by 500 percent.

In January, the ADR had told that a legislator from Assam has announced an increase of more than 5 thousand times in properties. After the 2011 assembly elections, a legislator of Kerala has increased the property by 1700 percent.

The petitioner said that apart from the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, 2016 Rajya Sabha elections, after the assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, Assam and West Bengal, there has been a lot of increase in the properties of several legislators and MPs.

While flouting the Modi government of India, the Supreme Court had commented on Monday that the government talks about election reforms on one side, but on the other hand, no work is completed on time.

The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court asked Additional Advocate General PS Narasimha, Is this the attitude of the Government of India? What have you done in this case till date?

In the petition, the NGO has said that not only the property of MP-MLAs and their source of income should be made public, but also the sources of income and property of their wives and children will be made public.

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