Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Union Ministers Pranab Mukherjee, Sharad Pawar, Meira Kumar and Subbirami Reddy were some of the names on a list put up by the Election Commission on its website on Wednesday, as part of 43 Members of Parliament, whose disqualification has been sought for allegedly holding an office of profit. The list also includes names of 200 MLAs.
References against those named from President A P J Abdul Kalam and Governors of various states are with the EC and are under 'various stages of consideration', it said.
The names of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and industrialist Anil Ambani are also on the list but they have already resigned from the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, respectively. The complaint against Gandhi has been called 'infructuous' by the EC, after her resignation.
Other prominent MPs against whom complaints have been made include Karan Singh, Najma Heptullah, Ajit Singh, V K Malhotra, Amar Singh, Sajan Kumar, Anuradha Chowdhury, N Jothi and Naveen Jindal. Chief ministers and ministers against whom references have been made include those of Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.