Press release: Analysis of background information of sitting Rajya Sabha MPs (including newly elected), 2018

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Press Release

24^th March, 2018

Dear friends,

National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 229 out of 233 sitting Rajya Sabha MPs. 3 MPs have not been analysed as their affidavits were unavalible or badly scanned. One Rajya Sabha seat in Bihar is vacant.

S.No.	State	Name	Party	Issue
1	RAJASTHAN	K.J. ALPHONS	BJP	Affidavit not available
2	KERALA	K K RAGESH	CPM	Incomplete affidavit
3	JHARKHAND	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu	INC	Badly scanned affidavit
4	BIHAR	-	-	Seat is vacant

Table: Rajya Sabha MPs who have not been analysed

CRIMINAL BACKGROUND

·         Rajya Sabha MPs with criminal cases: Out of the 229 Rajya Sabha MPs analysed, 51(22%) Rajya Sabha MPs have declared criminal cases against themselves.

·         Rajya Sabha MPs with serious criminal cases:20(9%) Rajya Sabha MPs have declared serious criminal cases.

·         Rajya Sabha MPs with declared cases related to murder:  One Rajya Sabha MPs namely Dhoot Rajkumar Nandlal (SHS) from Maharashtra has declared cases related to murder (IPC section 302).

·         Rajya Sabha MPs with declared cases related to attempt to murder:  2 Rajya Sabha MPs namely Gopal Narayan Singh (BJP) from Bihar and V. Muraleedharan (BJP) from Maharashtra have declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC Section 307).

·         Party wise Rajya Sabha MPs with criminal cases:14(22%) out of 64 Rajya Sabha MPs from BJP, 8 (16%) out of 50 Rajya Sabha MPs from INC, 3 (21%)  out of 14 Rajya Sabha MPs from SP, 4(31%)  out of 13 Rajya Sabha MPs from AIADMK  and 1(8%) out of 13 Rajya Sabha MPs from  AITC have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

·         Party wise Rajya Sabha MPs with serious criminal cases:  4(6%) out of 64 Rajya Sabha MPs from BJP, 5 (10%) out of 50 Rajya Sabha MPs from INC, 1 (7%)  out of 14 Rajya Sabha MPs from SP, 1(11%)  out of 9 Rajya Sabha MPs from BJD  and 2(40%) out of 5 Rajya Sabha MPs from  RJD have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Figure: Party wise percentage of Rajya Sabha MPs with declared criminal cases

·         State Wise Rajya Sabha MPs with criminal cases: 8(42%) out of 19 Rajya Sabha MPs from Maharashtra, 7 (47%) out of 15 Rajya Sabha MPs from Bihar, 6 (19%) out of 31 Rajya Sabha MPs from Uttar Pradesh, 6(33%) out of 18 Rajya Sabha MPs from Tamil Nadu and 3(27%) out of 11 Rajya Sabha MPs from Madhya Pradesh have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Figure: State wise percentage of Rajya Sabha MPs with declared criminal cases

FINANCIAL BACKGROUND

Figure: Share of wealth among Rajya Sabha MPs

·         Share of wealth among Rajya Sabha MPs : The share of wealth amongst sitting Rajya Sabha MPs as follows:

Value of assets (Rs)	Number of Rajya Sabha MPs	Percentage of Rajya Sabha MPs
Rs.10 crores and above	84	37%
Rs.5 crores to Rs.10 crores	34	15%
Rs.1 crore to Rs.5 crores	83	36%
Rs.20 lakhs to Rs.1 crore	23	10%
less than Rs.20 lakhs	5	2%

Table: Share of wealth among Rajya Sabha MPs

 

·         Crorepati Rajya Sabha MPs: Out of the 229 sitting Rajya Sabha MPs analysed, 201 (88%) are crorepatis..

 

·         Partywise crorepati Rajya Sabha MPs: Among major parties, 58 (91%)out of 64 Rajya Sabha MPs from BJP,46 (92%) out of 50 Rajya Sabha MPs from INC, 13(93%) Rajya Sabha MPs from SP and 12(92%)out of 13 Rajya Sabha MPs from AIADMK have declared assets valued more than Rs 1 crore.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Crorepatis Rajya Sabha MPs

Figure: State Wise Percentage of Crorepatis Rajya Sabha MPs

·         Average assets:The average of assets per Rajya Sabha MP is Rs. 55.62 crores.

 

·         Party wise average assets: Among the major parties, the average assets per MP for 64 BJP Rajya Sabha MPs analysed is Rs 27.80 crores, 50 INC Rajya Sabha MPs have average assets of Rs 40.98 crores , 14 SP Rajya Sabha MPs have average assets worth Rs. 92.68 crores and 13 AITC Rajya Sabha MPs have average assets of Rs. 12.22 crores.

·         High asset Rajya Sabha MPs*:The top three Rajya Sabha MPs with high assets are given below:

S.No.	Name	State	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Mahendra Prasad	BIHAR	JD(U)	40,43,48,19,318	34,92,41,000	40,78,40,60,318  4078 Crore+	Y
2	Bachchan Jaya Amitabh	UTTAR PRADESH	SP	5,38,83,66,566	4,62,80,25,000	10,01,63,91,566  1001 Crore+	Y
3	Ravindra Kishore Sinha	BIHAR	BJP	7,94,16,49,173	62,95,00,000	8,57,11,49,173   857 Crore+	Y

 Table: Top three Rajya Sabha MPs with highest declared assets

 

·         Low asset Rajya Sabha MPs: 3 Rajya Sabha MPs  with lowest assets have their assets valued less than Rs 7 lakhs, and their details are as follows:

S.No.	Name	State/UT	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Ahmed Hassan	WEST BENGAL	AITC	1,40,205	2,64,662	4,04,867   4 Lacs+	Y
2	Achyutananda Samananta	ORISSA	BJD	4,12,374	83,714	4,96,088   4 Lacs+	Y
3	Sanjay Singh	NCT OF DELHI	AAP	6,60,513	0	6,60,513   6 Lacs+	Y

Table: Three Rajya Sabha MPs with lowest declared assets

 

·         Rajya Sabha MPs with high liabilities: 154(67%) Rajya Sabha MPs have declared liabilities, and the details of the top 3 Rajya Sabha MPs with highest deaclared liabilities are as follows:

S.No.	Name	State/UT	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)
1	Kakde Sanjay Dattatraya	MAHARASHTRA	IND	4,25,65,86,815   425 Crore+	3,04,60,34,642   304 Crore+
2	T Subbarami Reddy	ANDHRA PRADESH	INC	4,22,44,58,704   422 Crore+	1,73,58,97,037   173 Crore+
3	Bachchan Jaya Amitabh	UTTAR PRADESH	SP	10,01,63,91,566   1001 Crore+	1,05,64,84,796   105 Crore+

 Table: Top three Rajya Sabha MPs with high liabilities

 

·         Rajya Sabha MPs with high income as declared in ITR*:The table below shows 3 Rajya Sabha MPs who have declared highest income in their Income Tax Returns.

S.No.	Name	Party Name	State	Total Asset (Rs)	The financial year for which the last income tax return has been filed by candidate	Total income shown by candidate in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self income shown by candidate in ITR (Rs)
1	Mahendra Prasad	JD(U)	BIHAR	40,78,40,60,318  4078 Crore+	2016-2017	3,06,14,00,000  306 Crore+	3,03,50,00,000  303 Crore+
2	Abhishek Manu Singhvi	INC	WEST BENGAL	6,49,80,99,894  649 Crore+	2016-2017	1,31,56,86,280  131 Crore+	1,30,96,95,330  130 Crore+
3	Bachchan Jaya Amitabh	SP	UTTAR PRADESH	10,01,63,91,566  1001 Crore+	2016-2017	78,76,67,570  78 Crore+	13,02,810  13 Lacs+

Table: Top 3 Rajya Sabha MPs with high income as declared in income tax returns

*Total income includes income of self, spouse and dependents

 

 

·         Rajya Sabha MPs who have not declared Income Tax Details*:24 (10%) Rajya Sabha MPs out of 229 analyzed have not declared income tax details.

* Some Rajya Sabha MPs may be exempted from filing Income Tax Returns

 

OTHER BACKGROUND DETAILS

·         Education Details of Rajya Sabha MPs:  27 (12%) Rajya Sabha MPs have declared their educational qualification to be between 5^th pass and 12^th pass while 197 (86%) Rajya Sabha MPs have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above.

·         Age details of Rajya Sabha MPs:8 (3%) Rajya Sabha MPs have declared their age to be between 31 and 40 years while 115 (50%) Rajya Sabha MPs have declared their age to be between 41 and 60 years.There are 102(45%) Rajya Sabha MPs who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years.  There are 4 Rajya Sabha MPs who have declared their age to be above 80 years.

 

·         Gender details of Rajya Sabha MPs:Out of 229 Rajya Sabha MPs, 25 (11%) Rajya Sabha MPs are women.

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