[National Election Watch] : 33 out of 100 ministers analysed have pending criminal cases against them in the upcoming State Assembly Elections, The average number of days that these Assemblies sat is way below the Lok Sabha sittings
D i l i p K. P a n d e y
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Attached herewith are the documents that ADR released at the press conference today in Delhi, 10th January 2012. The reports have been provided both in Hindi and English and include comparison of 5 states going to polls with respect to criminal and financial details of ministers of these 5 states, performance of the Assembly and the MLAs and analysis of state budget allotted to the 5 states.
As can be seen from the report titled Combined Ministers, ADR searched searched for the previous affidavits of 100 ministers filed with the Election Commission of India during the previous Assembly elections or subsequent elections and Lok Sabha and analysed them.
Highlights
- 33% ministers i.e. (33 out of 100 analyzed) have self declared pending criminal charges as per their affidavits filed during previous Assembly Elections. 17 ministers out of these 100 analyzed have declared serious IPC charges like murder and attempt to murder pending against them.
- Uttar Pradesh has the maximum percentage of ministers (46%) with pending criminal cases (21 out of 46). Out of these 21, 14 (30%) ministers have serious criminal cases pending against them.
- A total of 41 ministers (i.e. 41% of the total analyzed) are crorepatis.
- Punjab has the highest crorepatis i.e. 83% in its Cabinet followed by Goa and Uttar Pradesh with 67% and 37% respectively.
- The average asset of a minister in the 5 states comes out to be 3.02 crores even though Manipur has no crorepatis in its Cabinet.
State
Total No. of MLAs
Total No. of Ministers Analyzed
Ministers with Pending Criminal Cases
% of Ministers with Pending Criminal Cases
Ministers with Serious Pending Criminal Cases
% of Ministers with Serious Criminal Cases
Uttar Pradesh
403
46
21
46%
14
30%
Punjab
117
18
7
39%
3
17%
Uttarakhand
70
12
4
33%
0
0%
Manipur
60
12
0
0%
0
0%
Goa
40
12
1
8%
0
0%
Total
690
100
33
33%
17
17%
- Goa has the maximum average number of sittings/year (26) followed by Manipur (24) and UP (22).
- The least average number of sittings/year is for Punjab and Uttarakhand (19)
- The highest average attendance of MLAs is in the Uttarakhand Assembly (91%) followed by Punjab (71%) and Manipur (65%). Uttar Pradesh MLAs have the least average attendance (20%).
- This compares very poorly with the number of sittings of MPs in Lok Sabha. The current Lok Sabha in the last 2.5 years sat for 208 days which averages to about 77 days in a year.
State Assembly |
No. of Years considered |
Number of Sessions held by the Assembly |
Total number of days of sittings |
Average number of days of sittings /year |
Average attendance of MLAs (%) | No. of times assembly adjourned |
|
Uttar Pradesh (till Feb ’11) |
4 years |
10 |
89 |
22 |
23% |
26 |
|
Punjab (till Mar ’11) |
4 years |
10 |
76 |
19 |
71% |
14 |
|
Manipur (till Aug' 11) |
4.5 years |
11 |
110 |
24 |
65% |
11 |
|
Uttarakhand (till Sept ’10) |
3.5 years |
11 |
68 |
19 |
91% |
108 |
|
Goa (till Feb’11) |
3.5 years |
12 |
95 |
26 |
60% |
85 |
|
15th Lok Sabha (till Dec ‘10) |
2.5 years |
9 |
208 |
77 |
NA |
NA |
The other reports included here are titled:
1. State Budget Analysis - containing brief about the budget of all 5 States going for polls from 2005-2010 based on CAG reports.
2. Combined analysis of MLAs of UP, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
3. Combined analysis of Chief Ministers of UP, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
Thanks and Regards,
Contact Details
Uttar Pradesh Election Watch - Sanjay Singh Parmarth, +91-9415114151, parm...@gmail.com parmar...@sancharnet.in
Uttar Pradesh Election Watch - Mr. I C Dwivedi, icdw...@gmail.com
Punjab ELection Watch: Mr Jaskirat Singh, +91-93160-84953, jask...@gmail.com
Goa Election Watch: Mr Bhasker Assoldekar, +91-98203-53159, vibhan...@hotmail.com
Manipur ELection Watch: Mr Tasaduk Ariful Hussain, +91 361 2338-888, +91-94350-54775, ar...@nestinfo.org
Manipur ELection Watch: Mr Sumorjit, :+91-98624-96991, +91-94362-94734, somo...@hotmail.com
Uttarakhand Election Watch: Mr. Ravi Chopra, +91-0135 2773-849, +91-94111-35976, psid...@gmail.com
Uttarakhand Election Watch: Mr. Girija Pande, +91-94123-51759, girija...@gmail.com
Uttarakhand Election Watch: Mr. Sanjay Sondhi, +91-9412052189, sanjay....@gmail.com
National Election Watch: Mr. Anil Bairwal, National Coordinator, a...@adridnia.org T:+91 9999310100
National Election Watch : Prof Trilochan Sastry, Founder Member, ADR/NEW, +919448353285 trilo...@iimb.ernet.in
National Election Watch : Prof Jagdeep Chhokar, Founder Member, ADR, +919999620944 jchh...@gmail.com
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