Revanth tops ADR list; ‘Suvendu CM’ isn’t
ADR’s affidavit data puts Congress CM Revanth Reddy first for declared cases. A viral ‘ranking’ then makes a BJP MLA West Bengal’s chief minister. That’s not a detail; that’s the whole claim collapsing.
The comparison mixes a chief minister’s affidavit with an MLA’s record.
Analysis — A comparison doing the rounds says 14 of 28 chief ministers face criminal cases, puts Telangana’s Congress chief minister Revanth Reddy first with 89, and names “West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari” second with 29. Start with the one thing it gets right, then the part it invents.
ADR’s chief-minister analysis, drawn from election affidavits filed with the ECI, records Anumula Revanth Reddy (INC) with 89 declared cases, 72 classified as “serious” charges. These are pending matters listed in his affidavit, not convictions, and ADR’s entries generally show “charges framed: no”. That’s the record; Congress can argue the politics of it, not the figures. [ADR also says 12 of 30 CMs have declared cases; the 14-of-28 line is not in the material we can see.]
The collapse is the “second place”. Suvendu Adhikari is a BJP politician from Nandigram, not West Bengal’s chief minister — ADR’s own CM page names Mamata Banerjee as CM. The 29 cases appear in ADR’s West Bengal 2026 winning-candidates analysis — an MLA’s affidavit, not a chief minister’s. Mixing an MLA into a chief-ministers table isn’t a rounding error; it’s a different dataset.
What holds on record: ADR’s CM report has Revanth at 89 declared cases; ADR’s West Bengal report lists Adhikari at 29 as a candidate, with no convictions shown. What does not: the 14-of-28 headline and the claim that Adhikari is, or was, a chief minister.
If the Supreme Court filing that the viral item invokes exists, it needs a case number, date, and the annexures it quotes. Until someone shows the document, the BJP’s “second place CM” is just an MLA promoted by wishful thinking, and the Congress CM at the top still has ADR’s 89 on paper.