Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have together 65 Lok Sabha seats — 59 of them are held by BJP. The party had won 61 in the May 2014 elections but it lost two seats to Congress in by-polls in February this year in Rajasthan.
Mumtaz Alam and Ghazanfar Abbas | Caravan Daily
NEW DELHI — With less than six months left in the Lok Sabha elections, a research by Caravan Daily reveals that a huge sum of Rs 272 crore of the MP Local Area Development Funds is lying unspent in the three BJP-ruled states that are going to Assembly polls in a few weeks from now.
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have together Rs 271.72 crore lying unspent, shows the Lok Sabha website that records sanction, spending and unspent amount of Members of Lok Sabha. Assembly elections will be held here on 7th Dec.
Rajasthan which elected BJP candidates on all 25 Lok Sabha seats in May 2014, has unspent sum of Rs 119.96 crore. In the by-polls in February this year, BJP lost Ajmer and Alwar to Congress.
It is followed by Madhya Pradesh with unspent amount of Rs 112.68 crore. In the 2014 elections, BJP had won 26 out of 29 Lok Sabha seats. The state is going to Assembly polls on 28th Nov.
Chhattisgarh, which has only 11 Lok Sabha seats, has unspent sum of Rs 39.08 crore. In the Narendra Modi wave here too, BJP had won 10 seats. Two-phase Assembly polls will be held here on 12th and 20th Nov.
Each Lok Sabha member is entitled to Rs 5 crore under MPLADS for each financial year and thus on constituency gets Rs 25 crore for a five-year term.
| Rajasthan (25 Lok Sabha seats) | ||||
| MP Name | Party | Constituency | MPLADS Sanctioned
(Cr) |
Amount Unspent (Cr) |
| Sanwar Lal Jat (May 2014-Feb 2018)
Raghu Sharma (Feb 2018 -) |
Bhartiya Janata Party
Indian National Congress
|
Ajmer | 22.50 | 5.55 |
| Chand Nath
(May 2014-Feb 2018)
Karan Singh Yadav (Feb 2018 -) |
Bharatiya Janata Party
Indian National Congress
|
Alwar | 20.00 | 20.14 |
| Manshankar Ninama | Bhartiya Janata Party | Banswara (ST) | 20.00 | 2.55 |
| Sona Ram Choudhary | Bhartiya Janata Party | Barmer | 17.50 | 3.14 |
| Hariom Sing Rathore | Bhartiya Janata Party | Rajsamand | 15.00 | 4.00 |
| Bahadur Singh Koli | Bhartiya Janata Party | Bharatpur (ST | 22.50 | 3.70 |
| Subhash Chandra Baheria | Bhartiya Janata Party | Bhilwara | 15.00 | 4.97 |
| Arjun Ram Meghwal | Bhartiya Janata Party | Bikaner (SC) | 17.50 | 2.86 |
| Chandra Prakash Joshi | Bhartiya Janata Party | Chittorgarh | 20.00 | 4.92 |
| Rahul Kaswan | Bhartiya Janata Party | Charu | 17.50 | 5.17 |
| Harish chand Meena | Bhartiya Janata Party | Dausa (ST) | 10.00 | 1.63 |
| Nihalchand Chauhan |
Bhartiya Janata Party | Ganganagar (SC)
|
22.50 | 2.85 |
| Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore | Bhartiya Janata Party | Jaipur Rural
|
12.50 | 4.66 |
| Devi Mansighram Patel
|
Bhartiya Janata Party | Jalore
|
17.50 | 5.16 |
| Dushyant Singh | Bhartiya Janata Party | Jhalawar-Baran
|
17.50 | 4.68 |
| Santosh Ahlawat | Bhartiya Janata Party | Jhunjhunu | 17.50 | 6.43 |
| Gajendra Singh Shekhawat | Bhartiya Janata Party | Jodhpur | 12.50 | 4.60 |
| Om Birla | Bhartiya Janata Party | Kota
|
15.00 | 4.87 |
| C.R. Choudhary | Bhartiya Janata Party | Nagaur
|
17.50 | 3.68 |
| P.P Chaudhary
|
Bhartiya Janata Party | Pali
|
22.50 | 3.65 |
| Manoj Rajoria | Bhartiya Janata Party | Karauli-Dholpur(SC)
|
15.00 | 4.95 |
| Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria
|
Bhartiya Janata Party | Tonk-Sawai Madhopur | 15.00 | 4.98 |
| Sumendhanand Saraswati
|
Bhartiya Janata Party | Sikar | 20.00 | 2.85 |
| Ramcharan Bohara
|
Bhartiya Janata Party | Jaipur | 12.50 | 4.64 |
| Arjunlal Meena | Bhartiya Janata Party | Udaipur (ST)
|
20.00 | 3.33 |
| Madhya Pradesh (29 Lok Sabha seats) | ||||
| MP Name | Party | Constituency | MPLADS Sanctioned
(Cr) |
Amount Unspent (Cr) |
| Bodhsingh Bhagat
|
Bhartiya Janata Party | Balaghat | 22.50 | 3.92 |
| Jyoti Dhurve
|
Bhartiya Janata Party | Betul (ST) | 12.50 | 5.19 |
| Bhagirath Prasad | Bhartiya Janata Party | Bhind (SC)
|
22.50 | 5.49 |
| Alok Sanjar | Bhartiya Janata Party | Bhopal
|
12.50 | 4.98 |
| Kamal Nath | Indian National Congress
|
Chhindwara
|
22.50 | 4.11 |
| Prahlad Singh Patel
|
Bhartiya Janata Party | Damoh | 22.50 | 2.13 |
| Savitri Thakur | Bhartiya Janata Party | Dhar (ST)
|
22.50 | 4.91 |
| Jyotiraditya M Scindia | Indian National Congress
|
Guna
|
22.50 | 4.56 |
| Narendra Singh Tomar | Bhartiya Janata Party | Gwaliar | 15.00 | 4.07 |
| Uday Pratap Singh | Bhartiya Janata Party | Hoshangabad
|
20.00 | 4.26 |
| Sumitra Mahajan (Tai)
|
Bhartiya Janata Party | Indore
|
22.50 | 2.13 |
| Rakesh Singh | Bhartiya Janata Party | Jabalpur | 17.50 | 1.70 |
| Virendra Kumar | Bhartiya Janata Party | Tikamgarh (SC) | 20.00 | 2.71 |
| Nagendra Singh | Bhartiya Janata Party | Khajuraho
|
22.50 | 5.10 |
| Nandkumar Singh Chouhan
|
Bhartiya Janata Party | Khandwa | 20.00 | 3.31 |
| Subhash Patel | Bhartiya Janata Party | Khargone (ST)
|
20.00 | 3.37 |
| Faggan Singh Kulaste
|
Bhartiya Janata Party | Mandla (ST) | 17.50 | 4.72 |
| Sudhir Gupta | Bhartiya Janata Party | Mandsour
|
17.50 | 3.78 |
| Anoop Mishra | Bhartiya Janata Party | Morena
|
20.00 | 3.84 |
| Rodmal Nagar | Bhartiya Janata Party | Rajgarh
|
22.50 | 2.63 |
| Janardan Mishra | Bhartiya Janata Party | Rewa
|
22.50 | 2.82 |
| Laxmi Narayan Yadav
|
Bhartiya Janata Party | Sagar
|
25.00 | 4.48 |
| Ganesh Singh
|
Bhartiya Janata Party | Satna | 22.50 | 3.94 |
| Manohar Utwal | Bhartiya Janata Party | Dewas (SC) | 22.50 | 3.40 |
| Gyan Singh | Bhartiya Janata Party | Shahdol (ST) | 22.50 | 4.45 |
| Kantilal Bhuria | Indian National Congress | Ratlam (ST) | 17.50 | 6.23 |
| Riti Pathak | Bharatiya Janata Party
|
Sidhi | 20.00 | 3.90 |
| Chintamani Malviya | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Ujjain (SC) |
22.50 | 4.31 |
|
Sushma Swaraj |
Bhartiya Janata Party | Vidisha | 22.50 | 2.24 |
| Chhattisgarh (11 Lok Sabha seats) | ||||
| MP Name | Party | Constituency | MPLADS Sanctioned
(Cr) |
Amount Unspent (Cr) |
| Dinesh Kashyap | Bharatiya Janata Party | Bastar (ST) | 22.50 | 3.60 |
| Lakhan Lal Sahu
|
Bharatiya Janata Party | Bilaspur | 22.50 | 5.40 |
| Tamradhwaj Sahu
|
Indian National Congress
|
Durg | 22.50 | 2.34 |
| Kamla Devi Patle
|
Bharatiya Janata Party | Janjgir-Champa(SC) | 22.50 | 3.57 |
| Vikram Dev Usendi | Bharatiya Janata Party | Kanker (ST) | 15.00 | 3.22 |
| Chandulal Sahu | Bharatiya Janata Party | Mahasamund
|
17.50 | 2.44 |
| Vishnu Deo Sai | Bharatiya Janata Party | Raigarh (ST)
|
20.00 | 2.98 |
| Ramesh Bais | Bharatiya Janata Party | Raipur
|
22.50 | 4.21 |
| Abhishek Singh
|
Bharatiya Janata Party | Rajnandgaon
|
22.50 | 4.14 |
| Banshilal Mahto | Bharatiya Janata Party | Korba | 22.50 | 4.68 |
| Kamalbhan Singh Marabi | Bharatiya Janata Party | Sarguja (ST) | 22.50 | 2.50 |