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Press Release: Delhi Assembly Election 2025: Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other details of Winning Candidates

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Press Release

Date: February 09, 2025

Dear Friends,

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Delhi Election Watch have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 70 winning candidates in the Delhi 2025 Assembly Elections.

The full reports in English and Hindi can be accessed here: https://adrindia.org/content/Winning-Candidates-Report-Delhi-Assembly-Elections-2025

Summary and Highlights

Figure: Final Party Position

Criminal Background

Winning Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of the 70 winning candidates analysed in 2025 31(44%) winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Out of 70 MLAs analysed during Delhi Assembly elections in 2020, 43(61%) MLAs had declared criminal cases against themselves.

Winning Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 17(24%) winning candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves. Out of 70 MLAs analysed during Delhi Assembly elections in 2020, 37 (53%) MLAs had declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

Figure: Comparison of declared criminal cases of MLAs of 2008, 2013, 2015, 2020 and winning candidates 2025

Winning Candidates with Declared Cases Related to Attempt to Murder: 1 winning candidate has declared cases related to Attempt to murder (IPC Section-307 against himself.

Winning Candidates with Declared Cases Related to Crime Against Women: 2 winning candidates have declared cases related to crime against women.

Party Wise Winning Candidates with Criminal Cases: 16 (33%) out of 48 MLAs from BJP and 15(68%) out of 22 MLAs from AAP have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party Wise Winning Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 7 (15%) out of 48 MLAs from BJP and 10(45%) out of 22 MLAs from AAP have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Winning Candidates with Criminal Cases

Financial Background

Billionaire Winning Candidates: Out of the 70 winning candidates analysed, 3 are Billionaires. Out of 70 MLAs analysed during Delhi assembly elections 2020, Only 1 MLA was a Billionaire.

Figure: Percentage of Billionaire MLAs 2020 and Winning Candidates 2025

Figure: Share of Wealth among Winning Candidates

Share of Wealth Among Winning Candidates: The table given below shows the share of wealth among winning candidates in Delhi Assembly Elections, 2025:

Value of assets (Rs.)	No. of winning candidates	Percentage of winning candidates
Rs. 10 crores and above	31	44%
Rs. 5 crores to Rs. 10 crores	9	13%
Rs. 1 crore to Rs. 5 crores	21	30%
Rs. 20 lakhs Rs. 1 crore	7	10%
less than Rs. 20 lakhs	2	3%

Table: Share of Wealth Among winning candidates

Total Assets of Winning Candidates: The total assets of 70 winning candidates are Rs. 1,542 Crores.

Average Assets: The average of assets per winning candidates in the Delhi Assembly Elections 2025 is Rs 22.04 Crores. The average of assets per MLA in the Delhi Assembly Elections 2020 was Rs 14.29 crore.

Figure: Comparison of Average Assets (Rs. in Crores) 2008, 2013, 2015, 2020 vs 2025

Party Wise Average Assets: The average assets per winning candidate for 48 BJP winning candidates is Rs 28.59 Crores and 22 AAP Winning candidates have average assets of Rs. 7.74 crores.

Billionaire Winning Candidates: The details of Billionaire winning candidates are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Karnail Singh	North	Shakur Basti	BJP	92,36,090	2,58,75,00,000	2,59,67,36,090 259 Crore+	Y
2	Manjinder Singh Sirsa	West	Rajouri Garden	BJP	74,05,52,444	1,74,80,00,000	2,48,85,52,444 248 Crore+	Y
3	Parvesh Sahib Singh	New Delhi	New Delhi	BJP	96,52,83,180	19,11,00,000	1,15,63,83,180 115 Crore+	Y

Table: Assets of Billionaire winning candidates

Low Asset Winning Candidates: The details of three winning candidates with the lowest assets are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Sanjeev Jha	Central	Burari	AAP	7,21,331	7,26,000	14,47,331 14 Lacs+	Y
2	Prem Chauhan	South	Deoli	AAP	16,49,779	0	16,49,779 16 Lacs+	Y
3	Ravi Kant	East	Trilokpuri	BJP	20,47,145	0	20,47,145 20 Lacs+	Y

Table: Three winning candidates with lowest declared assets

Winning Candidates with High Liabilities: 23 winning candidates have declared liabilities of Rs 1 crore and above, and the details of the top 3 winning candidates are as follows:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets (Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	Disputed liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Parvesh Sahib Singh	New Delhi	New Delhi	BJP	1,15,63,83,180 115 Crore+	74,36,64,614 74 Crore+	0	Y
2	Manjinder Singh Sirsa	West	Rajouri Garden	BJP	2,48,85,52,444 248 Crore+	57,68,03,791 57 Crore+	0	Y
3	Tarvinder Singh Marwah	South-East	Jangpura	BJP	49,67,68,001 49 Crore+	13,65,43,502 13 Crore+	11,77,150 11 Lacs+	Y

Table: Top three winning candidates with high liabilities

Winning Candidates with High Income as Declared in ITR*: The table below shows 3 winning candidates who have declared highest income in their Income Tax Returns.

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Constituency	District	Total Assets (Rs)	Self Source of Income	Spouse's Source of Income	The financial year for which the last income tax return has been filed by winning candidates	Total income shown by winning candidates in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self income shown by winning candidates in ITR (Rs)
1	Parvesh Sahib Singh	BJP	NEW DELHI	NEW DELHI	1,15,63,83,180 115 Crore+	Pension as Ex Member of Parliament, Partner in Partnership Firm i.e. M/S Sahib Automobile, Rent and Interest	Salary and Interest	2023-2024	20,60,33,660 20 Crore+	19,68,34,100 19 Crore+
2	Manjinder Singh Sirsa	BJP	RAJOURI GARDEN	WEST	2,48,85,52,444 248 Crore+	Real Estate Business and Agriculture Income	Remuneration From Family Business	2023-2024	12,72,46,416 12 Crore+	12,67,20,616 12 Crore+
3	Dr Anil Goyal	BJP	KRISHNA NAGAR	EAST	78,18,42,401 78 Crore+	Salaried, Rental Income, Professional, Business	Salaried, Rental Income, Professional, Business	2023-2024	1,66,72,550 1 Crore+	69,82,580 69 Lacs+

Table: Top 3 winning candidates with high income as declared in income tax returns

*Total income includes income of self, spouse and dependents

Other Background Details

Education Details of Winning Candidates: 23(33%) winning candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5^th pass and 12^th pass, while 45 (64%) winning candidates have declared having an educational qualification of Graduate and above and 2 winning candidates are Diploma holders.

Age Details of Winning Candidates: 9(13%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 31 and 40 years while 47 (67%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 41 and 60 years. There are 14 (20%) winning candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years.

Gender Details of Winning Candidates: Out of 70 winning candidates analysed, 5 (7%) winning candidates are women. In 2020, out of 70 MLAs, 8 (11%) MLAs were women.