Press Release: Phase 2 Uttar Pradesh Analysis of Candidates

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The Uttar Pradesh Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 719 out of 721 candidates from 92 political parties, including 6 national parties, 6 state parties, 80 unrecognized parties and 206 independent candidates, who are contesting in the second phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections to be held on 15^Th February, 2017.

The complete report in Hindi and English can be found here: http://adrindia.org/content/analysis-criminal-and-financial-background-details-contesting-candidates-uttar-pradesh

The main highlights are given below:

Criminal Background

· Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of 719 candidates analyzed, 107 (15%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.

· Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 84 (12%) candidates have declared serious criminal cases, including cases related to murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, crimes against women etc.

· Candidates with cases related to murder: 6 candidates have declared cases related to murder (Indian Penal Code Section-302).

· Candidates with cases related to Attempt to Murder: 15 candidates have declared cases related to attempt to murder (Indian Penal Code Section-307).

· Candidates with cases related to Crimes against Women: 5 candidates have declared cases related to, including assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty (Indian Penal Code Section-354) and dowry death (IPC Section-304b).

· Candidates with cases related to Kidnapping: 7 candidates have declared cases related to kidnapping for ransom, etc. (Indian Penal Code Section- 364, 364A, 365).

· Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases: 16(24%) out of 67 candidates from Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), 25 (37%) out of 67 candidates from Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP), 6 (12%) out of 52 candidates from Rashtriya Lok Dal(RLD), 21 (41%) out of 51 candidates from Samajwadi Party ( SP),6 (33%) out of 18 candidates from Indian National Congress(INC), and 13 (6%) out of 206 Independent candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

· Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 17(25%) out of 67 candidates from BSP, 10 (15%) out of 67 candidates from BJP, 6 (12%) out of 52 candidates from RLD, 17(33%) out of 51 candidates from SP, 4 (22%) out of 18 candidates from INC and 12 (6%) out of 206 Independent candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

· Red Alert Constituencies*: There are 15 constituencies in the second phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections 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

· Share of wealth among candidates : The share of wealth amongst the candidates contesting in the second phase of assembly elections Uttar Pradesh is as follows:

Value of assets (Rs.)	No of candidates	Percentage of Candidates
Rs.5 cr and above	65	9%
Rs.2 crores to 5 crores	101	14%
Rs. 50 lakhs to 2 crores	187	26%
Rs.10 lakhs to 50 lakhs	180	25%
less than Rs. 10 lakhs	186	26%

Table: Share of wealth amongst contesting candidates

· High asset candidates: The 3 richest candidates contesting in the second phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Nawab Kazim Ali Khan	RAMPUR	SUAR	BSP	1,45,55,731	95,78,05,000	97,23,60,731 97 Crore+	Y
2	Umlesh Yadav	BADAUN	SAHASWAN	Rashtriya Parivartan Dal	27,77,45,600	27,32,60,130	55,10,05,730 55 Crore+	Y
3	Mohd. Nasir	MORADABAD	KANTH	BSP	51,21,004	37,96,23,500	38,47,44,504 38 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three candidates with highest declared assets

· Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 719 candidates, 256 (36%) are crorepatis.

Party wise Crorepati Candidates: 58(87%) out of 67 candidates from BSP, 50(75%) out of 67 candidates from BJP, 45 (88%) out of 51 candidates from SP, 13(72%) out of 18 candidates from INC, 15(29%) out of 52 candidates from RLD and 36 (18%) out of 206 Independent candidates have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.

Average assets: The average of assets per candidate contesting in the second phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections is Rs 2.01 Crores.

· Party wise average assets: Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 18 INC candidates is Rs. 3.37crores, 67 BJP candidates is Rs 4.07 crores, 67 BSP candidates have average assets of Rs 7.20 crores, 52 RLD candidates have average assets worth Rs 1.51 Crores, 51 SP candidates have average assets worth Rs 3.43 crores, and 206 Independent candidates have average assets of Rs. 60.63 lakhs.

· Zero asset candidate: 3 candidates have declared zero assets in their self sworn affidavits. The details of these candidates is as follows:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Pranshu Joshi	MORADABAD	MORADABAD RURAL	IND	0	0	0	N
2	Rakhi Rani	BAREILLY	AONLA	IND	0	0	0	N
3	Vandna Gupta	KHERI	PALIA	IND	0	0	0	N

Table: Zero asset candidates

· Low asset candidates: The three candidates with lowest assets (excluding candidate with zero asssets) are as follows:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1.	Madhubala	RAMPUR	MILAK (SC)	Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party	1,000^*	0	1,000 1 Thou+	N
2.	Sanjay Kumar	SHAHJAHANPUR	SHAHJAHANPUR	IND	3,082	0	3,082 3 Thou+	N
3.	Arun Prakash Gupta	BADAUN	BADAUN	IND	6,000	0	6,000 6 Thou+	Y

Table: Candidates with declared lowest assets

· Candidates with high liabilities: The top three candidates with highest liabilities are as given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	Disputed liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Omkumar	BIJNOR	NEHTAUR (SC)	BJP	38,32,44,202 38 Crore+	11,28,37,870 11 Crore+	0	Y
2	Majid Ali	SAHARANPUR	DEOBAND	BSP	31,31,41,134 31 Crore+	10,01,39,451 10 Crore+	0	Y
3	Umlesh Yadav	BADAUN	SAHASWAN	Rashtriya Parivartan Dal	55,10,05,730 55 Crore+	7,95,38,654 7 Crore+	0	Y

Table: Top three candidates with high liabilities

· Undeclared PAN: A total of 174 (24%) candidates have not declared their PAN details.

· Candidates with high income as declared in the ITR*: 7 candidates have declared total annual income of more than Rs 50 lakhs. These 3 candidates are as given below:

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Constituency	District	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	Rajeev Singh Urf Babbu Bhaiya	BJP	DATAGANJ	BADAUN	14,45,06,865 14 Crore+	2016-2017	1,21,88,517 1 Crore+	1,16,73,790 1 Crore+
2	Omkumar	BJP	NEHTAUR (SC)	BIJNOR	38,32,44,202 38 Crore+	2015-2016	95,57,558 95 Lacs+	95,57,558 95 Lacs+
3	Chet Ram	BJP	POWAYAN (SC)	SHAHJAHANPUR	1,30,15,732 1 Crore+	2016-2017	73,50,000 73 Lacs+	73,50,000 73 Lacs+

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

*Total income includes income of self, spouse and dependents

· Candidates who have not declared Income Tax Details*: 414(58%) out of 719 candidates have not declared income tax details.

* Some candidates may be exempted from filing Income Tax Returns

· Candidates with high Assets who have not declared Income Tax Details*: 50 candidates with assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore have not declared Income Tax details. The top three candidates with highest assets who have not declared their IT returns are as given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Total Income (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given	Self Income
1	Talat Khan	SAHARANPUR	SAHARANPUR NAGAR	All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen	0	8,90,60,259 8 Crore+	Y	ITR not filed
2	Sadhana Singh	BIJNOR	BARHAPUR	IND	0	7,34,68,077 7 Crore+	Y	ITR not filed
3	Masood Akhtar	SAHARANPUR	SAHARANPUR	INC	286000	7,13,46,632 7 Crore+	Y	ITR not filed

Table: Top three candidates with highest assets who have not declared ITR details

* Some candidates may be exempted from filing Income Tax Returns

Other Background Details

· Education details of candidates: 277 (39%) candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5^th and 12^th, while 310 (43%) candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. 93 candidates have declared themselves to be just literates and 11 candidates have declared to be illiterate.

· Age details of candidates: 475(66%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 and 50 years while 233 (32%) candidates have declared their age to be between 51 and 80 years. 11 candidates have not disclosed their age details.

Gender details of candidates: 69 (10%) female candidates are contesting in second phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly election this year. There is 1 candidate from third gender.

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