New Delhi: The Election Commission on Tuesday displayed on its website a list of 43 MPs including Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, Union Ministers Pranab Mukherjee, Sharad Pawar, Meira Kumar and T. Subbirami Reddy and over 200 MLAs of various States, against whom disqualification had been sought for holding an `office of profit.'

Commission sources said that the list formed part of the references received from the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Governors of States forwarding the complaints submitted to them. The Commission said the complaints were under various stages of consideration. In certain cases notices had been sent to the MPs/MLAs and in most of the cases the complainants had been asked to furnish additional particulars.

The list contains names of several Chief Ministers whose disqualification have been sought for allegedly holding an office of profit. Though the Commission has cleared the complaint with respect to Congress president Sonia Gandhi after her resignation, her name also figures in the list as also the name of industrialist Anil Ambani, who too has resigned.

Other prominent MPs against whom complaints have been made included Karan Singh, Najma Heptullah, Ajit Singh, V.K. Malhotra, Amar Singh, Sajjan Kumar, Anuradha Chowdhury, N. Jothi and Naveen Jindal. The Chief Ministers of Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and the Leader of the Opposition in Nagaland and the names of several Ministers in these States also figure in the list.

The State-wise list is Punjab 37; Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh 25 each; Jharkhand, 21; Delhi, 20; Sikkim, 17; Uttaranchal, 14; and Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh 13 each.

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