Press Release: Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporations

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Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Maharashtra Election Watch have analysed the self- sworn affidavits of 767 out of 1090 candidates, who are contesting for the Pune Municipal Corporation 2017, scheduled to be held on 21st February, 2017. There are total 162 seats spread across 41 wards. The rest of the affidavits were not analysed as they were not available or uploaded on the website at the time of making this report. Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Maharashtra Election Watch have also analysed the self- sworn affidavits of 541 candidates out of 774 who are contesting for the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation Elections, scheduled to be held on 21^st February, 2017. There are total 128 seats spread across 32 wards that will elect 4 members from each ward. The rest of the affidavits were not analysed as they were not available or uploaded on the website at the time of making this report.

The Full Report is available here:

PCMC: http://adrindia.org/content/pimpri-chinchwad-municipal-corporation-elections-2017-analysis-criminal-financial-and-other

PUNE: http://adrindia.org/content/municipal-corporation-elections-pune-2017-analysis-criminal-financial-and-other-background

The main Highlights of the analysis is given below:

Pune Municipal Corporation

Criminal Background

Out of the 767 candidates analyzed,128 candidates or 17 % declared declared criminal cases against them.Nationalist Congress Party had 25 out of 92 (27 %), Shivsena had 24 out of 95 (25 %), Bhartiya Janata Party had 22 out of 106 (21 %), Maharashtra Navnirman Sena had 12 out of 82 (15 %), Indian National Congress had 11 out of 56 (20 %), Bahujan Samaj Party had 4 out of 41 (10 %), All India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen had 3 out of 17 (18 %) candidates with declared criminal cases.

Out of these 128 candidates with declared criminal cases, 93 (12 %) had declared serious criminal cases like murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, robbery, extortion etc. Shivsena had 20 , Nationalist Congress Party had 15 , Bhartiya Janata Party had 14 , Maharashtra Navnirman Sena had 9 , Indian National Congress had 6 , Bahujan Samaj Party had 4 , All India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen had 1 .

Party Wise Total Candidates with declared criminal cases

Party Name	Total number of candidates analyzed	candidates with declared Criminal Cases	% of candidates with declared criminal cases	candidates with serious declared criminal cases	% of candidates with serious declared criminal cases
BHARTIYA JANATA PARTY	106	22	20.8 %	14	13.2 %
SHIVSENA	95	24	25.3 %	20	21.1 %
NATIONALIST CONGRESS PARTY	92	25	27.2 %	15	16.3 %
MAHARASHTRA NAVNIRMAN SENA	82	12	14.6 %	9	11.0 %
INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS	56	11	19.6 %	6	10.7 %
BAHUJAN SAMAJ PARTY	41	4	9.8 %	4	9.8 %
IND	26	4	15.4 %	3	11.5 %
ALL INDIA MAJLIS E ITTEHADUL MUSLIMEEN	17	3	17.6 %	1	5.9 %
Others	252	23	9.1%	21	8.3S%
Total	767	128	16.7%	93	12.1%

Financial Background

· Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 767 candidates analyzed, 261 (34%) are crorepatis.

· Average Assets: The average assets per candidate analyzed for this election, is Rs. 3.61 Crores.

· High Assets: The candidate with highest declared total assets is Rekha Chandkant Tigare who is contesting from Ward No. 1, with assets worth Rs. 134 crores+. The top ten candidates with highest declared assets are: -

S.No.	Name	Municipal Corporation	Ward No.	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	रेखा चंद्रकांत टिंगरे	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	1	Nationalist Congress Party	1,28,19,866	1,33,00,98,000	1,34,29,17,866 134 Crore+	N
2	Akrur Babanrao Kudale	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	33	Nationalist Congress Party	38,71,29,114	60,50,01,204	99,21,30,318 99 Crore+	N
3	Sunil Balkrushna Gaikwad	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	22	Shivsena	82,07,484	80,30,80,000	81,12,87,484 81 Crore+	N
4	Ashok Dnyaneshwar Murkute	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	8	Nationalist Congress Party	1,95,12,066	72,63,50,303	74,58,62,369 74 Crore+	N
5	Reshma Anil Bhosale	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	7	Other	21,23,68,165	43,07,25,000	64,30,93,165 64 Crore+	N
6	Ramesh Dattatray Adhav	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	3	Nationalist Congress Party	1,87,05,614	55,00,64,980	56,87,70,594 56 Crore+	N
7	Shrikant Shashikant Jagtap	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	34	Bhartiya Janata Party	1,66,24,776	51,92,28,000	53,58,52,776 53 Crore+	N
8	Kalpana Sambhaji Thorve	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	40	Shivsena	3,21,11,181	50,36,63,516	53,57,74,697 53 Crore+	N
9	Nita Anant Dangat	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	33	Bhartiya Janata Party	1,59,80,456	49,68,72,570	51,28,53,026 51 Crore+	N
10	Smita Mahadev Babar	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	27	Shivsena	4,83,85,589	44,65,05,618	49,48,91,207 49 Crore+	N

Table 2: Candidates declaring high assets

· Zero Assets: There are 6 candidates contesting from Pune Mahanagarpalika who have declared zero assets.

S.No.	Name	Municipal Corporation	Ward No.	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Devdas Dattatray Lonkar	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	27	Other	0	0	0	N
2	Vilas Rangnath Ghogare	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	14	IND	0	0	0	N
3	Vijay Dnyanoba Pawar	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	37	Other	0	0	0	N
4	Vishnu Digambar Garud	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	33	Other	0	0	0	N
5	Madhuri Shriram Sahasrabudhe	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	13	Bhartiya Janata Party	0	0	0	N
6	Megha Mayur Atale	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	31	Maharashtra Navnirman Sena	0	0	0	N

· Low Assets: There are 68 (excluding the one declaring zero assets) candidates who have declared low assets below Rs. 1 lakhs.

· Candidates with high Liabilities: The candidate with highest declared total liabilities is Ganesh Madukar Bidkar who is contesting from Ward No. 16 having liabilities of Rs. 11.92 crores. The top ten candidates with highest declared liabilities are given below :-

S.No.	Name	Municipal Corporation	Ward No.	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)
1	Ganesh Madhukar Bidkar	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	16	Bhartiya Janata Party	23,30,54,197 23 Crore+	11,92,11,065 11 Crore+
2	Sameer Gopinath Tupe	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	22	Shivsena	17,22,82,683 17 Crore+	8,25,78,031 8 Crore+
3	Prakash Vitthal Kadam	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	38	Nationalist Congress Party	43,75,64,839 43 Crore+	8,08,00,419 8 Crore+
4	Reshma Anil Bhosale	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	7	Other	64,30,93,165 64 Crore+	7,34,02,782 7 Crore+
5	Abhijit Madhavrao Kadam	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	40	Bhartiya Janata Party	30,05,76,716 30 Crore+	6,71,70,258 6 Crore+
6	Ramesh Dattatray Adhav	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	3	Nationalist Congress Party	56,87,70,594 56 Crore+	6,03,16,006 6 Crore+
7	Pournima Vinayak Nimbalkar	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	34	Shivsena	8,28,38,789 8 Crore+	4,91,51,849 4 Crore+
8	Balasaheb Hanumant Malusare	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	18	Shivsena	11,15,46,381 11 Crore+	4,74,01,852 4 Crore+
9	Dilip Tukaram Vedepatil	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	10	Bhartiya Janata Party	37,67,16,045 37 Crore+	3,88,49,381 3 Crore+
10	Sangita Dattatray Gaikwad	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	8	Indian National Congress	33,20,09,910 33 Crore+	3,85,67,744 3 Crore+

Table 3: Candidates with high liabilities

· Candidates with High Income as declared in ITR*: Only 15 out of 767 candidates have declared a total annual income of more than Rs. 50 Lakhs +. Declared ITR of top 5 candidates is given below –

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Ward No.	Municipal Corporation	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	Vijay Zumbar More	Nationalist Congress Party	23	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	8,22,69,667 8 Crore+	Not Given	4,68,25,270 4 Crore+	4,68,25,270 4 Crore+
2	Ganesh Madhukar Bidkar	Bhartiya Janata Party	16	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	23,30,54,197 23 Crore+	Not Given	97,74,292 97 Lacs+	97,74,292 97 Lacs+
3	Akrur Babanrao Kudale	Nationalist Congress Party	33	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	99,21,30,318 99 Crore+	Not Given	85,91,760 85 Lacs+	85,91,760 85 Lacs+
4	Hema Dilip Navale	Bhartiya Janata Party	33	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	16,24,47,568 16 Crore+	Not Given	75,25,649 75 Lacs+	75,25,649 75 Lacs+
5	Shailesh Balasaheb Charwad	Nationalist Congress Party	34	PUNE MAHANAGARPALIKA	6,22,55,993 6 Crore+	Not Given	75,00,369 75 Lacs+	75,00,369 75 Lacs+

Table 4: Candidates with high income as declared in ITR*

*Total income includes income of self, spouse and dependents

Other Background Details

· Age Details of Candidates: 18 candidates have declared their ages to be between 21 to 24 years, 120 candidates have declared their ages to be between 25 to 30 years, 279 candidates have declared their ages to be between 31 to 40 years, 233 candidates have declared their ages to be between 41 to 50 years, 102 candidates have declared their ages to be between 51 to 60 years while 15 candidates have declared their ages to be between 61 to 70 years.

Age Group (In Years)	Number of Candidates Analyzed
1-24	18
25-30	120
31-40	279
41-50	233
51-60	102
61-70	15
Total	767

Table 5: Age Report

· Gender Details of Candidates: Out of total 767 analyzed candidates, 415(54%) are men whereas 351 (46%) are women.

Total candidates analyzed	Men	Women	Unknown
767	415	351	1

Table 6: Gender Report

Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation

Criminal Background

· Candidates with Criminal Cases: 63 (12%) out of 541 analyzed candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.

· Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 46 (9%) out of 541 analyzed candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves like murder, attempt to murder, criminal intimidation, habitual dealing in slave, voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means, robbery, house-trespass, Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, etc.

· Party wise Candidates with declared Criminal Cases:

14 (19%) out of 74 candidates analysed from BJP, 12 (17%) out of 70 candidate analysed from NCP, 8 (13%) out of 60 candidate analysed from Shivsena, 2 (5%) out of 39 candidate analysed from INC and 1 (4%) out of 23 candidates analysed from MNS have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

· Party wise Candidates with declared Serious Criminal Cases: 9 (12%) out of 74 candidates analysed from BJP, 8 (11%) out of 70 candidate analysed from NCP, 6 (11%) out of 60 candidate analysed from Shivsena, 1 (3%) out of 39 candidate analysed from INC and 1 (4%) out of 23 candidates analysed from MNS have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party Name	Total number of candidates analyzed	candidates with declared Criminal Cases	% of candidates with declared criminal cases	candidates with serious declared criminal cases	% of candidates with serious declared criminal cases
Other	146	14	10%	11	8 %
Independent	102	11	11 %	9	9 %
Bhartiya Janata Party	74	14	19 %	9	12%
Nationalist Congress Party	70	12	17 %	8	11%
Shivsena	60	8	13 %	6	10%
Indian National Congress	39	2	5 %	1	3 %
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena	23	1	4 %	1	4 %
Others	27	0	0%	0	0%
Total	541	63	12%	46	9%

Table 1: Party wise candidates with criminal cases

Financial Background

· Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 541 analyzed candidates, 215 (40%) are crorepatis.

· Party wise Crorepati Candidates: 50 (68%) out of 74 candidates from BJP, 39 (56%) out of 70 candidates from NCP, 26 (43%) out of 60 candidate analysed from Shivsena and 10 (26%) out of 39 candidate analysed from INC are Crorepatis.

Party Name	Number Of Candidates Analyzed	No Of Crorepatis	Percentage Of Crorepati Candidates
Independent	102	56	55%
Bhartiya Janata Party	74	50	68%
Nationalist Congress Party	70	39	56%
Other	146	32	22%
Shivsena	60	26	43%
Indian National Congress	39	10	26%
Other	50	2	0%
Total	541	215	40%

Table 2: Party wise crorepati candidates

· Average Assets: The average asset per candidate for this election is Rs. 2.87 crore per candidate.

· Party wise average assets :

Party Name	Number of Candidates Analyzed	Average Assets (Rs)
Other	146	Rs 1,14,59,544 ~ 1 Crore+
IND	102	Rs 3,84,44,476 ~ 3 Crore+
Bhartiya Janata Party	74	Rs 4,14,28,617 ~ 4 Crore+
Nationalist Congress Party	70	Rs 5,75,92,885 ~ 5 Crore+
Shivsena	60	Rs 3,39,93,498 ~ 3 Crore+
Indian National Congress	39	Rs 1,84,32,207 ~ 1 Crore+
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena	23	Rs 11,63,404 ~ 11 Lacs+
Bahujan Samaj Party	12	Rs 7,73,309 ~ 7 Lacs+
All India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen	9	Rs 11,71,511 ~ 11 Lacs+
Others	3	Rs 1,45,15,624 ~ 1 Crore+
Samajwadi Party	2	Rs 15,80,000 ~ 15 Lacs+
Janata Dal Secular	1	Rs 80,06,000 ~ 80 Lacs+
All Parties	541	Rs 2,87,45,675

Table 3: Party wise average assets

· High Assets: The candidate with highest declared total assets is Sandeep Balkrishna Waghere who is contesting from ward no 21 as Independent with assets worth Rs. 87 crores+. The top ten candidates with highest declared assets are: -

S.No.	Name	Ward no	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)
1	Sandeep Balkrishna Waghere	21	IND	7,69,28,819	79,75,17,941	87,44,46,760 87 Crore+
2	Gurbux Vishandas Pahlani	19	Nationalist Congress Party	36,96,19,348	21,98,25,283	58,94,44,631 58 Crore+
3	Anita Devidas Tambe	27	Shivsena	26,69,412	44,23,00,000	44,49,69,412 44 Crore+
4	Rahul Tanaji Kalate	25	Shivsena	5,71,34,198	37,75,92,210	43,47,26,408 43 Crore+
5	Vikrant Vilas Lande	8	Nationalist Congress Party	6,68,57,279	36,70,24,600	43,38,81,879 43 Crore+
6	Ramadhar Nankulal Yadav	21	IND	43,49,169	39,45,20,012	39,88,69,181 39 Crore+
7	Shatrughna Sitaram Kate	28	Bhartiya Janata Party	50,95,593	37,37,89,367	37,88,84,960 37 Crore+
8	Swati Chandrakant Kate	30	IND	9,42,83,743	23,29,66,808	32,72,50,551 32 Crore+
9	Bhausaheb Sopanrao Bhoir	17	Nationalist Congress Party	3,51,28,751	28,87,85,082	32,39,13,833 32 Crore+
10	Bhuleshwar Tukaram Nandgude	26	Indian National Congress	2,85,08,725	27,80,81,100	30,65,89,825 30 Crore+

Table 4: Candidates declaring high assets

· Zero Assets: There are only 5 candidates, who declared zero assets.

· Low Assets: There are 65 (excluding the 5 declaring zero assets) candidates who declared assets below Rs. 2 lakhs, in this election.

· Candidates with high Liabilities: The candidate with highest declared total liabilities is Vikrant Vilas Lande who is contesting from ward no 8 having liabilities of Rs. 18 Crores +. The top ten candidates with highest declared liabilities are given below :-

S.No.	Name	Ward no	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)
1	Vikrant Vilas Lande	8	Nationalist Congress Party	43,38,81,879 43 Crore+	18,67,79,909 18 Crore+
2	Ram Hanumant Wakadkar	25	Bhartiya Janata Party	25,78,01,655 25 Crore+	14,58,90,349 14 Crore+
3	Sandeep Balkrishna Waghere	21	IND	87,44,46,760 87 Crore+	8,55,26,700 8 Crore+
4	Sanjay Malharrao Wabale	8	Nationalist Congress Party	13,67,44,831 13 Crore+	4,45,08,426 4 Crore+
5	Usha Sanjog Waghere	21	Nationalist Congress Party	9,92,00,609 9 Crore+	4,16,89,005 4 Crore+
6	Rajendra Tanaji Gawade	18	IND	7,60,29,100 7 Crore+	3,31,17,332 3 Crore+
7	Satish Dagdu Darekar	23	Nationalist Congress Party	28,99,46,443 28 Crore+	3,10,75,533 3 Crore+
8	Madhuri Satish Darekar	24	Nationalist Congress Party	28,92,36,043 28 Crore+	3,10,71,551 3 Crore+
9	Vilas Eknath Nandgude	26	Nationalist Congress Party	27,45,48,556 27 Crore+	2,92,98,618 2 Crore+
10	Shatrughna Sitaram Kate	28	Bhartiya Janata Party	37,88,84,960 37 Crore+	2,88,19,332 2 Crore+

Table 5: Candidates with high liabilities

· Candidates with High Income as declared in ITR*: Only 4 out of 541 candidates have declared a total annual income of more than Rs. 1 crore +. Declared ITR of top 5 candidates is given below –

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Ward no	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)
1	Anita Sandeep Kate	IND	28	9,06,23,346 9 Crore+	Not Given	2,72,68,645 2 Crore+
2	Rajendra Ganpat Jagtap	IND	31	11,03,40,705 11 Crore+	Not Given	2,49,99,176 2 Crore+
3	Dhananjay Vitthal Kalbhor	Bhartiya Janata Party	15	16,96,02,128 16 Crore+	Not Given	1,38,32,751 1 Crore+
4	Sanjay Malharrao Wabale	Nationalist Congress Party	8	13,67,44,831 13 Crore+	Not Given	1,00,80,000 1 Crore+
5	Rajendra Tanaji Gawade	IND	18	7,60,29,100 7 Crore+	Not Given	95,38,530 95 Lacs+

Table 6: Candidates with high income as declared in ITR*

*Total income includes income of self, spouse and dependents

Other Background Details

· Age Details of Candidates: 20 candidates have declared their ages to be between 21 to 24 years, 75 candidates have declared their ages to be between 25 to 30 years, 211 candidates have declared their ages to be between 31 to 40 years, 167 candidates have declared their ages to be between 41 to 50 years, 59 candidates have declared their ages to be between 51 to 60 years, 8 candidates have declared their ages to be between 61 to 70 years while only 1 candidate had declared his age to be between 71 to 80 years.