Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2019 – Phase III : Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other Details of Candidates

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Press Release

Date 4^th December 2019

Dear Friends,

The Jharkhand Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 309 candidates, who are contesting from 17 constituencies in the Jharkhand Assembly Elections Phase III.

For the complete report in Hindi and English, please go to : https://adrindia.org/content/jharkhand-assembly-elections-2019-–-phase-iii-analysis-criminal-background-financial

Summary and Highlights

Criminal Background

· Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of 309 candidates analyzed, 91 (29%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.

· Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 62(20%) candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

· Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 4(44%) out of 9 candidates analysed from INC, 10 (71%) out of 14 candidates analysed from AJSU Party, 8(50%) out of 16 candidates analysed from BJP and 8 (47%) out of 17 candidates analysed from JVM(P) have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

· Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 3(33%) out of 9 candidates analysed from INC, 6(38%) out of 16 candidates analysed from BJP, 5(29%) out of 17 candidates analysed from JVM(P) and 6(43%) out of 14 candidates analysed from AJSU Party have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

· Candidates with declared cases related to crime against women: 10 candidates have declared cases related to crime against women such as assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty (IPC Section-354) and word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (IPC Section-509).

· Candidates with declared cases related to murder: 2 candidates have declared cases related to murder (IPC Section-302) against themselves.

· Candidates with declared cases related to attempt to murder: 13 candidates have declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC Section-307) against themselves.

· Candidates with declared convicted cases: 2 candidates have declared convicted cases against themselves.

Figure: Party Wise Candidates with Criminal Cases

· Red Alert Constituencies*: All 17 constituencies in the Jharkhand assembly elections, Phase III are having 3 or more candidates with declared criminal cases.

*Red Alert Constituencies are those which have 3 or more candidates with criminal cases contesting elections.

Financial Background

· Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 309 candidates, 77(25%) are crorepatis.

· Party wise Crorepati Candidates: Among the major parties 13(81%) out of 16 candidates analysed from BJP, 5(83%) out of 6 candidates analysed from JMM, 4(44%) out of 9 candidates analysed from INC, 11(79%) out of 14 candidates analysed from AJSU Party and 9(53%) out of 17 candidates from JVM(P) have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Crorepati Candidates

· Average assets: The average of assets per candidate contesting in the Jharkhand Assembly Elections Phase III is Rs 1.24 crores.

· Party wise average assets: Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 9 INC candidates analysed is Rs. 4.22 crores, 6 JMM candidates analysed is Rs 2.32 crore, 16 BJP candidates have average assets of Rs 4.68 crore, 17 JVM(P) candidates have average assets of Rs 2.69 crore and 14 AJSU Party candidates have average assets worth Rs. 3.37 crore.

· High asset candidates: The details of top 3 candidates with highest declared assets, contesting in the Jharkhand Assembly Elections Phase III are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Manish Jaiswal	HAZARIBAGH	HAZARIBAGH	BJP	8,84,54,321	18,20,00,783	27,04,55,104 27 Crore+	Y
2	Munna Singh	HAZARIBAGH	HAZARIBAGH	JVM(P)	6,10,42,213	13,04,85,000	19,15,27,213 19 Crore+	Y
3	Sudesh Kumar Mahto	RANCHI	SILLI	AJSU Party	13,95,92,000	4,61,81,000	18,57,73,000 18 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three candidates with highest declared assets

· Low assets candidates: The details of three candidates with the lowest assets are as follows:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Abdullah Ajhar Ansari	RANCHI	HATIA	IUML	4,500^*	0	4,500 4 Thou+	Y
2	Devendra Nath Mahto	RANCHI	SILLI	IND	7,000	0	7,000 7 Thou+	Y
3	Rajeshavar Mahto	RANCHI	SILLI	IND	10,000	0	10,000 10 Thou+	N

Table: Candidates with declared lowest assets

· Candidates with high liabilities: 159(51%) candidates have declared liabilities in their affidavits. The details of top three candidates with highest liabilities are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	Disputed liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Manish Jaiswal	HAZARIBAGH	HAZARIBAGH	BJP	27,04,55,104 27 Crore+	# 5,38,11,296 5 Crore+	8,77,88,561 8 Crore+	Y
2	Munna Singh	HAZARIBAGH	HAZARIBAGH	JVM(P)	19,15,27,213 19 Crore+	3,52,33,931 3 Crore+	0	Y
3	Sudesh Kumar Mahto	RANCHI	SILLI	AJSU Party	18,57,73,000 18 Crore+	3,42,17,000 3 Crore+	0	Y

Table: Top three candidates with highest liabilities

#disputed liabilities

· Undeclared PAN: A total of 23(7%) candidates have not declared their PAN details.

· Candidates with high income as declared in the ITR*: The details of top 3 candidates who have declared highest income in ITR is as given below:

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Constituency	District Name	Total Asset (Rs)	Self Source of Income	Spouse's Source of Income	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	Sudesh Kumar Mahto	AJSU Party	SILLI	RANCHI	18,57,73,000 18 Crore+	Pension, Business Income and Lease Rent etc.	Business Income	2018-2019	2,68,24,870 2 Crore+	1,53,60,370 1 Crore+
2	Dr. Ramchandra Prasad	INC	HAZARIBAGH	HAZARIBAGH	6,75,89,238 6 Crore+	Nursing Home, Medical Store, School, Agriculture etc.	Medical Store, Nursing Home etc	-	1,62,61,562 1 Crore+	1,42,44,707 1 Crore+
3	Amitabh Kumar	RJD	KODARMA	KODERMA	6,54,17,249 6 Crore+	Salary	Salary	-	79,72,470 79 Lacs+	50,24,470 50 Lacs+

Table: Top 3 candidates with highest income as declared in ITR

*Some Candidates may be exempted from filing Income tax returns

Other Background Details

· Education details of candidates: 148 (48%) candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5^th and 12^thstandard, while 140 (45%) candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. 1 candidate has declared his education just Illiterate and 14 candidates declared themselves as literate.

· Age details of candidates: 137(44%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 to 40 years while 143 (46%) candidates have declared their age to be between 41 to 60 years. There are 25(8%) candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years. 3 candidates have not declared their age while one candidate has declared his age below 25 years.