Press Release: Analysis of Criminal, Financial, and Other background details of Union Council of Ministers Post Cabinet Expansion on 5th July, 2016

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National Election Watch (NEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn latest affidavits of all 78 ministers (Including Prime Minister) from Lok Sabha 2014 and current Rajya Sabha.

In a recent cabinet expansion, 19 new ministers were inducted in the cabinet. This report focusses on the criminal, financial and education background details of the new ministers in the cabinet.

Highlights

Newly inducted Ministers;

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name
1	Ajay Tamta	Uttarakhand	Almora	BJP
2	Anupriya Patel	Uttar Pradesh	Mirzapur	Apna Dal
3	Arjun Ram Meghwal	Rajasthan	Bikaner	BJP
4	C.R. Chaudhary	Rajasthan	Nagaur	BJP
5	Dr. Subhash Ramrao Bhamre	Maharashtra	Dhule	BJP
6	Faggan Singh Kulaste	Madhya Pradesh	Mandla	BJP
7	Jasvantsinh Bhabhor	Gujarat	Dahod	BJP
8	Smt. Krishna Raj	Uttar Pradesh	Shahjahanpur	BJP
9	Mahendra Nath Pandey	Uttar Pradesh	Chandauli	BJP
10	P.P. Chaudhary	Rajasthan	Pali	BJP
11	Rajen Gohain	Assam	Nowgong	BJP
12	Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi	Karnataka	Bijapur	BJP
13	S.S. Ahluwalia	West Bengal	Darjeeling	BJP
14	Anil Madhav Dave	Madhya Pradesh	Rajya Sabha	BJP
15	Mansukh L. Mandaviya	Gujarat	Rajya Sabha	BJP
16	M.J. Akbar	Madhya Pradesh	Rajya Sabha	BJP
17	Parshottam Rupala	Gujarat	Rajya Sabha	BJP
18	Ramdas Athawale	Maharashtra	Rajya Sabha	RPI(A)
19	Vijay Goel	Rajasthan	Rajya Sabha	BJP

Criminal Background

Ministers with Criminal Cases: Among newly inducted cabinet ministers, 7 have declared criminal cases against themselves. Out of the all 78 Ministers analysed, 24 (31%) Ministers have declared criminal cases against themselves.

· Ministers with Serious Criminal Cases: Among newly inducted cabinet ministers, 3 ministers have declared serious criminal cases. In all, 14 (18%) ministers have declared serious criminal cases including cases related to attempt to murder, communal disharmony, electoral violations etc.

· Ministers with cases related to Electoral Violations: Among the newly elected cabinet ministers, Ramesh Jigajinagi of Bijapur Constituency has declared two cases related to bribery (IPC Section-171E). In all, 5 (6%) ministers have declared cases related to Electoral Violations.

Financial Background

· Crorepati Ministers: Out of the 78 ministers, 72 (92%) are crorepatis.

· Average Assets*: The average assets of the newly inducted ministers is Rs. 8.73 crores. In all, the average assets per minister is Rs.12.94 crores.

· High Asset Ministers*: Among the newly inducted ministers, Mubbashar Javal Akbar, Rajya Sabha member from Madhya Pradesh declared the highest total assets of Rs. 44.90 crores followed by P P Choudhary from Pali constituency with assets worth Rs. 35.35 crores and Vijay Goel, Rajya Sabha member from Rajasthan with total assets worth Rs. 29.97 crores.

Among the 78 cabinet ministers, 9 ministers declared total assets worth more than Rs. 30 crores. These ministers are as follows;

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Arun Jaitley	PUNJAB	AMRITSAR	BJP	37,32,16,000	75,70,00,000	1,13,02,16,000 113 Crore+	Y
2	Harsimrat Kaur Badal	PUNJAB	BATHINDA	SAD	46,71,75,285	61,44,89,625	1,08,16,64,910 108 Crore+	Y
3	Goyal Piyush Vedprakash	MAHARASHTRA	Rajya Sabha Member	BJP	78,71,42,134	16,66,44,300	95,37,86,434 95 Crore+	Y
4	Jayant Sinha	JHARKHAND	HAZARIBAGH	BJP	43,44,33,261	12,23,21,318	55,67,54,579 55 Crore+	Y
5	Yalamanchili Satyanarayana Chowdary	ANDHRA PRADESH	Rajya Sabha Member	TDP	47,36,50,000	6,96,18,000	54,32,68,000 54 Crore+	Y
6	Mahesh Sharma	UTTAR PRADESH	GAUTAM BUDHHA NAGAR	BJP	20,96,40,897	26,41,56,648	47,37,97,545 47 Crore+	Y
7	Mubbashar Javal Akbar	MADHYA PRADESH	Rajya Sabha Member	BJP	26,11,19,994	18,79,12,000	44,90,31,994 44 Crore+	Y
8	Maneka Sanjay Gandhi	UTTAR PRADESH	PILIBHIT	BJP	12,46,32,826	24,95,00,000	37,41,32,826 37 Crore+	Y
9	P P Choudhary	RAJASTHAN	PALI	BJP	2,33,97,467	33,01,06,000	35,35,03,467 35 Crore+	Y

*Total Assets includes assets of self, spouse and dependents.

· Low Asset Ministers: Among newly inducted ministers analysed, Anil Madhav Dave, Rajya Sabha member from Madhya Pradesh declared the lowest total assets worth Rs. 60.97 lakhs. A total of 6 ministers out of 78 ministers had declared assets less than Rs. 1 crore. These six ministers with lowest assets are as follows:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Sadhavi Niranjan Jyoti	Uttar Pradesh	Fatehpur	BJP	28,63,779^*	9,00,000	37,63,779 37 Lacs+	Y
2	Anil Madhav Dave	Madhya Pradesh	Rajya Sabha member	BJP	12,97,179	48,00,000	60,97,179 60 Lacs+	Y
3	Ajay Tamta	Uttarakhand	Almora	BJP	24,66,653	39,00,000	63,66,653 63 Lacs+	Y
4	Thavarchand	Madhya Pradesh	Rajya Sabha member	BJP	19,64,293*	66,48,690*	86,12,983 86 Lacs+	Y
5	Sudarshan Bhagat	Jharkhand	Lohardaga	BJP	75,81,009	14,50,000^*	90,31,009 90 Lacs+	Y
6	Ram Vilas Paswan	Bihar	Hajipur	LJP	68,42,023	28,00,000	96,42,023 96 Lacs+	Y

Table: Low Asset Ministers

Other Background details (Education, Gender, Age)

· Ministers’ Age: A total of 3 ministers have declared their age between 31 to 40 years. 44 Ministers have declared their age to be between 41 and 60 years and 31 Ministers declared their age to be between 61 and 80 years. The youngest minister is Anupriya Singh Patel aged 33 from Mirzapur constituency Uttar Pradesh.

· Women Ministers: Out of 78 Ministers, Only 9 (12%) are woman.

Education Details

Among all 78 ministers analysed in total, 14 (18%) Ministers have declared that have an education qualification of 12^th pass or below while 63 (81%) Ministers have declared having an educational qualification of Graduation and above.

Education Group	Number of Ministers analyzed
5th Pass	1
10th Pass	7
12th Pass	6
Graduate	15
Graduate Professional	24
Post Graduate	20
Doctorate	4
Others	1
Total	78