Hyderabad : Union Tousism minister chiranjeevi and seven other ministers form the state are facing criminal charges in various cases, representatives of forum for Good Governance charged here on saturday.the forum said that the state ministers sridhar babu. vatti vasanta kumar, c. ramachandraiah and p.balaraju are also facing one case each, danam nagender and uttam kumar reddy have two cases against their names while Ganta srinivas Rao is facing four cases.

It said that chirajeevi was facing three cases registered against him at different police staions.Apart from the minisrers a total of 154 criminal cases are pending against 54 mlas,27 cases against eight mps and 10 criminal cases are pending against five mlcs,fourm secretary m.padamanabha reddy said,  about 40 per cent cases booked long ago are still under investigation he maintained.

The forum has also submiteed a memorandum to dgp v. dibesg reddy requesting him to speed up the investigations againsr these public representatives. on the recent apex courts judgment barring candidates convicted of charges form contesing polls, mr, reddy said speedy disposal of the cases will help in cleaning up the political system.