Press release: Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Election 2024 : Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other details of Winning Candidates

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Press Release

Date: October 10, 2024

Dear Friends,

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Jammu & Kashmir Election Watch have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 90 winning candidates in the Jammu & Kashmir 2024 Assembly Elections.

The full reports in English and Hindi can be accessed here: https://adrindia.org/content/Analysis-of-Criminal-Financial-and-other-Details-of-Winning-Candidates-Jammu-Kashmir-Assembly-Elections-2024

Summary and Highlights

Figure: Final Party Position

Criminal Background

Winning candidates with criminal cases: Out of the 90 winning candidates analysed in 2024 9(10%) winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Out of 87 MLAs analysed during Jammu & Kashmir Assembly elections in 2014, 5(6%) MLAs had declared criminal cases against themselves.

Winning candidates with serious criminal cases: 8(9%) winning candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves. Out of 87 MLAs analysed during Jammu & Kashmir Assembly elections in 2014, 2 (2%) MLAs had declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

Figure: Comparison of declared criminal cases of MLAs of 2014 and winning candidates 2024

Party wise winning candidates with criminal cases: 5(12%) out of 42 Winning candidates from JKNC, 2(7%) out of 29 Winning candidates from BJP, 1(33%) out of 3 Winning candidates from JKPDP and 1 (100%) AAP winning candidate have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party wise winning candidates with serious criminal cases: 4(10%) out of 42 Winning candidates from JKNC, 2(7%) out of 29 Winning candidates from BJP, 1(33%) out of 3 Winning candidates from JKPDP and 1 (100%) AAP winning candidate have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Winning Candidates with Criminal Cases

Financial Background

Crorepati Winning candidates: Out of the 90 winning candidates analysed, 76 (84%) are crorepatis. Out of 87 MLAs analysed during Jammu & Kashmir assembly elections 2014, 65 (75%) MLAs were crorepatis.

Figure: Percentage of crorepati MLAs 2014 and winning candidates 2024

Party-wise crorepati winning candidates: 37(88%) out of 42 winning candidates from JKNC, 25 (86%) out of 29 winning candidates from BJP, 6 (100%) winning candidates from INC, 2 (67%) out of 3 winning candidates from JKPDP, 1 (100%) winning candidate from CPI(M), 1 (100%) winning candidate from Jammu & Kashmir People Conference and 4(57%) out of 7 Independent winning candidates have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.

Figure: Party wise Percentage of Crorepati Winning Candidates

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 Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Elections, 2024:

Value of assets (Rs.)	No. of winning candidates	Percentage of winning candidates
Rs. 10 crores and above	23	26%
Rs. 5 crores to Rs. 10 crores	26	29%
Rs. 1 crore to Rs. 5 crores	27	30%
Rs. 20 lakhs Rs. 1 crore	12	13%
less than Rs. 20 lakhs	2	2%

Table: Share of Wealth Among winning candidates

Average assets: The average of assets per winning candidates in the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024 is Rs 11.43 Crores. The average of assets per MLA in the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Elections 2014 was Rs 4.56 crore.

Figure: Comparison of Average Assets (Rs. in Crores) 2014 and 2024

Party wise average assets: The average assets per winning candidate for 29 BJP winning candidates is Rs 14.55 Crores, 42 Jammu & Kashmir National Conference winning candidates is Rs 8.47 Crores, 6 INC winning candidates is Rs 30.12 Crores, 3 Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party winning candidates is Rs 4.25 Crores, 1 Jammu & Kashmir People Conference winner candidate is Rs 20.79 Crores, 1 CPI(M) winner candidate is Rs 1.65 Crores, 1 AAP winner candidate is Rs 29.07 Thousand and 7 Independent winning candidates have average assets worth Rs 4.99 Crores.

High asset winning candidates: The top three winning candidates 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	Tariq Hameed Karra	Srinagar	Central Shalteng	INC	44,17,570	1,48,00,00,000	1,48,44,17,570 148 Crore+	Y
2	Devender Singh Rana	Jammu	Nagrota	BJP	28,12,42,167	98,69,22,413	1,26,81,64,580 126 Crore+	Y
3	Mushtaq Guroo	Srinagar	Channapora	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	6,34,80,000	87,87,00,000	94,21,80,000 94 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three winning candidates with highest declared assets

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	Mehraj Malik	Doda	Doda	AAP	29,070	0	29,070 29 Thou+	Y
2	Javaid Ahmad Mirchal	Kupwara	Karnah	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	3,03,122	0	3,03,122 3 Lacs+	Y
3	Zafar Ali Khatana	Anantnag	Kokernag (ST)	Jammu & Kashmir National Conference	2,13,381	32,75,000	34,88,381 34 Lacs+	Y

Table: Three winning candidates with lowest declared assets

Winning candidates with high liabilities: 68 winning candidates have declared liabilities 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	Randhir Singh	Rajouri	Kalakote - Sunderbani	BJP	26,62,04,000 26 Crore+	9,30,99,000 9 Crore+	0	Y
2	Payare Lal Sharma	Kishtwar	Inderwal	IND	8,16,89,000 8 Crore+	7,51,58,000 7 Crore+	0	Y
3	Sajad Gani Lone	Kupwara	Handwara	Jammu & Kashmir People Conference	20,79,58,079 20 Crore+	7,34,84,411 7 Crore+	1,50,00,000 1 Crore+	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 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 winning candidates	Total income shown by winning candidates in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self income shown by winning candidates in ITR (Rs)
1	Devender Singh Rana	BJP	Nagrota	Jammu	1,26,81,64,580 126 Crore+	Income From Business/ Rents, Salary	Income From Business	2023-2024	7,99,73,419 7 Crore+	1,17,10,120 1 Crore+
2	Kuldeep Raj Dubey	BJP	Reasi	Reasi	59,02,21,000 59 Crore+	Business	Business	2022-2023	2,24,52,790 2 Crore+	2,01,76,250 2 Crore+
3	Payare Lal Sharma	IND	Inderwal	Kishtwar	8,16,89,000 8 Crore+	Construction Works	NA	2023-2024	97,25,440 97 Lacs+	97,25,440 97 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: 25 (28%) winning candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 8^th pass and 12^th pass, while 63 (70%) winning candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate and above and 2 winning candidates who are Diploma holders.

Age details of winning candidates: 29 (32%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 25 and 50 years while 61 (68%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 51 and 80 years.

Gender details of winning candidates: Out of 90 winning candidates analysed, 3 (3%) winning candidates are women. In 2014, out of 87 MLAs, 3 (3%) MLAs were women.