Press Release: Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other details of Chhattisgarh Sitting MLAs

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Press Release

Date: October 13, 2023

Dear Friends,

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Chhattisgarh Election Watch have analyzed the criminal, financial and other background details of 88 out of 90 sitting MLAs.

For the complete reports in English and Hindi, please see: https://adrindia.org/content/analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender-and-other-details-sitting-mlas-14

This analysis is based on the affidavits submitted by the candidates prior to the 2018 Assembly elections and bye elections conducted thereafter.

In the current assembly, 2 seats are vacant in the following constituencies:

S.No.	District	Constituency	Current Status
1	Balodabazar	Baloda Bazar	Vacant
2	Durg	Vaishali Nagar	Vacant

Table: Constituencies where seats of MLAs are vacant

Details of one sitting MLA who had changed his party after the 2018 assembly elections, are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Previous Party	Current Party	Remark
1	Dharmjeet Singh Thakur	Mungeli	Lormi	Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (J)	BJP	Expelled from JCC -J & joined BJP on 13/8/23

Table: MLA who changed the party after the 2018 assembly elections

Summary and Highlights

Criminal Background

MLAs with criminal cases: Out of 88 sitting MLAs analysed, 21 (24%) Sitting MLAs have declared criminal cases against themselves.

MLAs with serious criminal cases: 11 (13%) Sitting MLAs have declared serious criminal cases.

MLAs with declared cases related to attempt to murder: 1 Sitting MLA has declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC section 307).

Party wise sitting MLAs with criminal cases: 18 (25%) out of 71 MLAs from INC and 3 (21%) out of 14 BJP MLAs have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party wise sitting MLAs with serious criminal cases: 11 (15%) out of 71 INC MLAs have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party wise percentage of MLAs with declared criminal cases

Financial Background

Crorepati MLAs: Out of 88 sitting MLAs analysed, 65 (74%) are crorepatis.

Party wise crorepati MLAs: 50 (70%) out of 71 MLAs from INC, 13 (93%) out of 14 MLAs from BJP, 1 (50%) out of 2 MLAs from BSP and 1 (100%) Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (J) MLAs have declared assets valued more than Rs 1 crore.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Crorepati MLAs

Average assets: The average of assets per sitting MLA is Rs.10.50 crore.

Party wise average assets: The average assets per MLA for 71 INC MLAs analysed is Rs.11.51 crores, 14 BJP MLAs analysed is Rs.6.71 crores, 2 BSP MLAs analysed is Rs.2.04 crores and one Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (J) MLA has assets worth Rs.8.30 crores.

High assets MLAs:The top three MLAs with high assets are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	T.S. Baba	Surguja	Ambikapur	INC	8,58,34,907	4,91,42,92,706	5,00,01,27,613 500 Crore+	Y
2	Amitesh Shukla	Gariaband	Rajim	INC	4,28,02,190	70,21,25,800	74,49,27,990 74 Crore+	Y
3	Saurabh Singh Thakur	Janjgir-Champa	Akaltara	BJP	4,21,96,644	23,54,00,000	27,75,96,644 27 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three MLAs with highest declared assets

Low assets MLAs: The details of three MLAs 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	Ram Kumar Yadav	Janjgir-Champa	Chandrapur	INC	30,464	0	30,464 30 Thou+	Y
2	Gulab Singh Kamro	Koria	Bharatpur-Sonhat (ST)	INC	5,12,759	30,000	5,42,759 5 Lacs+	Y
3	Shakuntala Sahu	Balodabazar	Kasdol	INC	5,75,193	0	5,75,193 5 Lacs+	N

Table: Top three MLAs with lowest declared assets

MLAs with high liabilities: 8 MLAs have declared liabilities of Rs 1 crore and above, and the details of the top 3 MLAs are as follows:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets (Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	Disputed liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Satya Narayan Sharma	Raipur	Raipur Rural	INC	7,50,91,236 7 Crore+	2,83,09,184 2 Crore+	0	Y
2	Ajay Chandrakar	Dhamtari	Kurud	BJP	13,74,17,400 13 Crore+	2,03,61,750 2 Crore+	0	Y
3	Amarjeet Bhagat	Surguja	Sitapur (ST)	INC	5,87,26,059 5 Crore+	1,52,33,633 1 Crore+	0	Y

Table: Top three MLAs with high liabilities

MLAs with high income as declared in ITR*:The table below shows 3 MLAs who have declared highest income in their Income Tax Returns.

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Constituency	District Name	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 MLA	Total income shown by MLA in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self income shown by MLA in ITR (Rs)
1	Amitesh Shukla	INC	Rajim	Gariaband	74,49,27,990 74 Crore+	Agriculture, Business, Rent and Pension	Agriculture, Business and Rent	2017-2018	73,41,202 73 Lacs+	30,29,502 30 Lacs+
2	Ajay Chandrakar	BJP	Kurud	Dhamtari	13,74,17,400 13 Crore+	Govt. Salary Chhattisgarh government and Agriculture	Agriculture Crop Weighing Machine and Godam Rent Business	2017-2018	72,75,495 72 Lacs+	22,70,030 22 Lacs+
3	Dr. Raman Singh	BJP	Rajnandgaon	Rajnandgaon	10,72,34,236 10 Crore+	Salary & Wages, Agriculture, Rent, Interest, HUF Agriculture, Interest	Agriculture & Interest	2017-2018	59,83,853 59 Lacs+	34,59,130 34 Lacs+

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

*Total income includes income of self, spouse and dependents

Other Background Details

Education Details of MLAs: 27(31%) MLAs have declared their educational qualification to be between 5^th and 12^thstandard while 59 (67%) MLAs have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above and 2 MLAs have declared themselves to be just literates.

Age details of MLAs: 37(42%) MLAs have declared their age to be between 25 and 50 years while 51 (58%) MLAs have declared their age to be between 51 and 80 years.