Press release: Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other details of Ministers in Bihar, 2017

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Press Release

Date: 1^st August, 2017

Dear friends,

Bihar Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of newly elected 29 ministers including Chief Minister from Bihar State Assembly, 2017. Below are the summary and highlights of the report:

List of Cabinet Ministers of Bihar

S.No.	Ministers	Elections	Party
1	Sushil Kumar Modi	MLC Member	BJP
2	Nitish Kumar	MLC Member	JD(U)
3	Mangal Pandey	MLC Member	BJP
4	Vinod Narayan Jha*	MLC Member	BJP
5	Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan Singh)**	Nominated Candidate for Lok Sabha Elections , 2014	JD(U)
6	Bijendra Prasad Yadav	MLA	JD(U)
7	Brij Kishore Bind	MLA	BJP
8	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	MLA	JD(U)
9	Jai Kumar Singh	MLA	JD(U)
10	Kapil Dev Kamat	MLA	JD(U)
11	Khurshid alias Feroz Ahmad	MLA	JD(U)
12	Krishna Kumar Rishi	MLA	BJP
13	Krishannandan Prasad Verma	MLA	JD(U)
14	Madan Sahni	MLA	JD(U)
15	Maheshwar Hazari	MLA	JD(U)
16	Smt. Kumari Manju Verma	MLA	JD(U)
17	Nand Kishore Yadav	MLA	BJP
18	Pashupati Paras	MLA	LJP
19	Pramod Kumar	MLA	BJP
20	Prem Kumar	MLA	BJP
21	Ram Narayan Mandal	MLA	BJP
22	Ramesh Rishidev	MLA	JD(U)
23	Rana Randhir	MLA	BJP
24	Santosh Nirala	MLA	JD(U)
25	Shailesh Kumar	MLA	JD(U)
26	Shrawan Kumar	MLA	JD(U)
27	Suresh Sharma	MLA	BJP
28	Vijay Kumar Sinha	MLA	BJP
29	Vinod Kumar Singh	MLA	BJP

Table: Cabinet Ministers of Bihar

*Vinod Narain Jha is a MLC member of Bihar. The data has been taken from the affidavit submitted by him during Bihar Assembly Elections, 2015.

**Rajiv Ranjan Singh contested in Lok Sabha Election 2014 and lost. The data has been taken from the affidavit submitted by him during the Lok Sabha Elections.

Criminal Background

· Ministers with Criminal Cases: 22 (76%) ministers have declared criminal cases against themselves. In the previous cabinet ministers of Bihar, 19 (68%) out of the 28 ministers analysed had declared criminal cases against themselves.

· Ministers with Serious Criminal Cases: Out of the 22 ministers who have declared criminal cases, 9 have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

· Party wise Serious Criminal Cases:

IPC	IPC Description	JD(U)	BJP	LJP	Total
Heinous Crimes
'307'	Attempt to murder	2	0	0	2
'300','302','303','304','304A','305','306','308	Murder and related	1	0	0	1
'321','322','323','324','325','326','327','328','329','330','331','332', '333', '334', '335'	Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means	2	2	0	4
Robbery,Extortion,Theft,Cheating Etc
'411','412','413','414','415','418','419','420','417'	Cheating and dishonesty , stolen property	1	0	0	1
'378','379','380','381','382'	Theft related	2	1	0	3
Financial fraud
'463','465','466','467','468','469','470','471'	Forgery	2	0	0	2
Crime against women
'304B','366A','366B','354','372','373','493','498','498A','509','313'	Crimes against women	1	0	0	1
Other Serious Crimes
'171G','171H'	False statements/ Illegal payments in connection with an election	2	4	0	6
'171C','171D','171F'	Undue influence or personation at an election	1	1	0	2
'339','340','341','342','343','344','345','346','347','348'	Wrongful confinement for three or more days	2	0	0	2
'153A'	Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language,etc. and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony	0	1	0	1

Table: Party wise Serious Criminal Cases

*Ministers may have multiple cases against themselves.

Financial Background

· Crorepati Ministers: Out of the 29 ministers, 21 (72%) are crorepatis. In the previous council of ministers, out of the 28 ministers analysed, 22(79%) were crorepati.

· Average Assets: The average assets of 29 ministers is Rs 2.46 crores.

· Ministers with Highest Assets: The minister with the highest declared total assets is Vijay Kumar Sinha from Lakshisarai constituency with assets worth Rs.15.64 crores. The top three ministers with highest declared assets are:

S.No	Name	State/District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)
1.	Vijay Kumar Sinha	LAKHISARAI	LAKHISARAI	BJP	9,81,72,626	5,82,38,000	15,64,10,626 15 Crore+
2.	Suresh Kumar Sharma	MUZAFFARPUR	MUZAFFARPUR	BJP	2,34,35,885	8,77,10,000	11,11,45,885 11 Crore+
3.	Rajiv Ranjan Singh Alias Lalan Singh	BIHAR	Munger	JD(U)	1,56,32,326	4,01,25,600	5,57,57,926 5 Crore+

Table: Top 3 Ministers with Highest Assets

Ministers with Low Assets: The minister with the lowest declared assets is Mangal Pandey elected from Bihar Legislative Assembly with assets worth Rs. 49.93 lakhs. The details of top 3 ministers with low assets are given below:

S.No	Name	State/District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)
1.	Mangal Pandey	ELECTED FROM BIHAR LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY	MLC Member	BJP	49,93,582	0	49,93,582 49 Lacs+
2.	Brij Kishor Bind	KAIMUR (BHABHUA)	CHAINPUR	BJP	20,04,550	32,00,000	52,04,550 52 Lacs+
3.	Binod Kumar Singh	KATIHAR	PRANPUR	BJP	46,00,146	21,00,000	67,00,146 67 Lacs+

Table: Top 3 Ministers with Lowest Assets

· Liabilities: A total of 26 ministers have declared liabilities out of which the minister with the highest liabilities is Ramesh Rishidev of Singheshwar (SC) constituency with Rs. 56.56 lakhs of liabilities. Top three ministers with high liabilities are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)
1	Ramesh Rishidev	MADHEPURA	SINGHESHWAR (SC)	JD(U)	1,38,87,199 1 Crore+	56,56,113 56 Lacs+
2	Prem Kumar	GAYA	GAYA TOWN	BJP	1,53,21,619 1 Crore+	47,82,221 47 Lacs+
3	Pashupati Kumar Paras	KHAGARIA	ALAULI (SC)	LJP	4,32,70,197 4 Crore+	45,07,455 45 Lacs+

· High Income Ministers*: Top three ministers with highest income in their ITR are given below:

S. No	Name	Party	Constituency	District	Total Asset (Rs)	The financial year for which the last income tax return has been filed by Ministers	Total income shown by candidate in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self income shown by minister in ITR (Rs)
1.	Vijay Kumar Sinha	BJP	LAKHISARAI	LAKHISARAI	15,64,10,626 15 Crore+	2014-2015	56,82,856 56 Lacs+	15,14,826 15 Lacs+
2.	Pashupati Kumar Paras	LJP	ALAULI (SC)	KHAGARIA	4,32,70,197 4 Crore+	2015-2016	52,60,950 52 Lacs+	19,81,914 19 Lacs+
3.	Suresh Kumar Sharma	BJP	MUZAFFARPUR	MUZAFFARPUR	11,11,45,885 11 Crore+	2014-2015	40,63,524 40 Lacs+	17,14,363 17 Lacs+

Table: Top 3 Ministers who have declared High Income

*Total income includes income of self, spouse and dependents

Other Background details (Education, Gender, Age)

· Ministers’ Education: A total of 9 (31%) ministers have declared their educational qualification to be between 8^th and 12^th pass while 18(62%) are graduates or have higher degrees.

· Ministers’ Age: A total of 11 (38%) ministers have declared their age to be between 31-50 years while 18(62%) ministers have declared their age to be between 51-70 years.

· Women Ministers: Out of 29 Ministers, only 1(3%) is a woman. In the previous cabinet of ministers, out of 28 Ministers, 2(7%) were women.

Please refer to the attached report for complete information on declared criminal cases, total assets, profession and income of current Ministers of Bihar Assembly.

Regards,

Bihar Election Watch

Mr. Rajiv Kumar

State Co-ordinator

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