Member of Parliament in Jail – Total 6

These days every ones attention is on UPA government…Only 1 question is going around.. Will UPA survive the trust vote on 22nd July? And few people to whom courts call criminal and as they are ours MPs too, are becoming key part of this crucial game…
Read about them….it’s a short story and good to know those faces.

1. Shahabuddin has been languishing in Siwan jail for years now. He is convicted in at least three criminal cases by trial courts and facing a life term for kidnapping a CPI-ML activist with the intention to murder. But now Siwan MP got the bail and he had to follow his party's (RJD) whip to vote for the UPA government.

2. RJD MP from Bihar, Pappu Yadav, is serving life sentence in Delhi's Tihar Jail for the murder of former Purnea CPM MLA Ajit Sarkar, he is alos on bail to rescue UPA.

3. Another MP serving time in jail is Independent Afzal Ansari from Ghazipur, he used to be with SP. Elder brother of don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, Afzal too is a history-sheeter and is currently lodged in jail on charges of having murdered the Bharatiya Janata Party politician Krishnanand Rai. Irony is that he is grandson of former Congress President and prominent freedom fighter Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari.

4. On Monday, a lower court in Allahabad had allowed suspended Samajwadi Party MP Atiq Ahmed, also in jail, to participate in the trust vote. This takes the number of jailed MPs allowed to vote on July 22 to four. But he might go against UPA.

5. The Patna HC on Wednesday granted bail to Lok Jantantrik Party MP Surajbhan Singh. The Balia (Bihar) MP had sentenced for life imprisonment for murdering a farmer.

6. Umakant Yadav is the BSP MP from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, he is also in jail but because of medical treatment he is in Lucknow Medical College. He was arrested few days ago on Mayawati’s direction. And now again he has declared that Mayawati is his leader, so no price for guessing if he also get the bail.