Press Release: Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2019 Phase I : Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other Details of Candidates

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Press Release

22nd November, 2019

Dear Friends,

The Jharkhand Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 189 candidates who are contesting in the Jharkhand Assembly Elections Phase I. For the complete report please go to: https://adrindia.org/content/jharkhand-assembly-elections-2019-%E2%80%93-analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender

Summary and Highlights

Criminal Background

Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of 189 candidates analyzed, 44 (23%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.
Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 26(14%) have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.
Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 4(67%) out of 6 candidates analysed from INC, 6(46%) out of 13 candidates analysed from JVM(P), 5 (42%) out of 12 candidates analysed from JD(U), and 4 (33%) out of 12 candidates analysed from BJP have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 3(50%) out of 6 candidates analysed from INC, 4(33%) out of 12 candidates analysed from JD(U), 4(33%) out of 12 candidates analysed from BJP, and 3(23%) out of 13 candidates analysed from JVM(P) have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Figure: Party Wise Candidates with Criminal Cases
Red Alert Constituencies*: There are 7 constituencies in the Jharkhand assembly elections, Phase I, 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

Figure: Share of Wealth among the Contesting Candidates

Share of wealth among candidates: The share of wealth amongst the candidates contesting in the Jharkhand assembly elections phase I is as follows:

Value of assets (Rs.)	Number of candidates	Percentage of Candidates
Rs.5 cr and above	13	7%
Rs.2 crores to Rs. 5 crores	22	12%
Rs. 50 lakhs to Rs. 2 crores	54	28%
Rs.10 lakhs to Rs. 50 lakhs	55	29%
less than Rs. 10 lakhs	45	24%

Table: Share of wealth amongst contesting candidates

Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 189 candidates, 59(31%) are crorepatis.
High asset candidates: The details of top 3 candidates with highest declared assets, contesting in the Jharkhand Assembly Elections Phase I are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Krishna Nand Tripathi	PALAMU	DALTONGANJ	INC	67,69,510	52,85,75,000	53,53,44,510 53 Crore+	Y
2	Rameshwar Oraon	LOHARDAGA	LOHARDAGA (ST)	INC	58,75,477	27,42,97,399	28,01,72,876 28 Crore+	Y
3	Kushwaha Shashi Bhushan Mehta	PALAMU	PANKI	BJP	4,57,94,561	22,50,00,000	27,07,94,561 27 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three candidates with highest declared assets

Party wise Crorepati Candidates: Among the major parties 3(100%) out of 3 candidates analysed from AJSU Party, 5(83%) out of 6 candidates analysed from INC, 9(75%) out of 12 candidates analysed from BJP, 7(54%) out of 13 candidates analysed from JVM(P) and, 5(42%) out of 12 candidates from JD(U) 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 I is Rs 1.85 Crores.
Party wise average assets: Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 6 INC candidates analysed is Rs. 16.97 crores, 12 BJP candidates analysed is Rs 4.33 crores, 13 JVM(P) candidates have average assets of Rs 2.35 crores, 12 JD(U) candidates have average assets of Rs 1.50 crore and 3 AJSU Party candidates have average assets worth Rs. 1.39 crore.
Low assets candidates: The details of three candidates with lowest assets are as follows:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Ekabal Singh	Garhwa	Bhawanathpur	CPI(ML) Red Star	10,500	0	10,500 10 Thou+	N
2	Pradeep Oraon	Gumla	Gumla (ST)	JD(U)	17,000^*	0	17,000 17 Thou+	Y
3	Anuj Kumar Thakur	Palamu	Daltonganj	IND	54,844	0	54,844 54 Thou+	Y

Table: Candidates with declared lowest assets

Candidates with high liabilities: 81(43%) 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	Kamlesh Kumar Singh	Palamu	Hussainabad	NCP	3,71,32,033 3 Crore+	# 2,95,97,298^* 2 Crore+	2,95,97,298 2 Crore+	Y
2	Prakash Ram	Latehar	Latehar (SC)	BJP	4,14,90,172 4 Crore+	2,02,77,120 2 Crore+	0	Y
3	Rahul Agrawal	Palamu	Daltonganj	JVM(P)	8,16,99,115 8 Crore+	1,60,46,832 1 Crore+	0	Y

Table: Top three candidates with highest liabilities

# Disputed liabilities

Undeclared PAN: A total of 33(17%) 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	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	Naresh Prasad Singh	IND	BISHRAMPUR	PALAMU	14,27,98,000 14 Crore+	Contractor	Business	2018-2019	2,70,05,110 2 Crore+	2,47,64,130 2 Crore+
2	Kushwaha Shashi Bhushan Mehta	BJP	PANKI	PALAMU	27,07,94,561 27 Crore+	Business	Salary	2018-2019	1,34,61,810 1 Crore+	1,14,59,834 1 Crore+
3	Rahul Agrawal	JVM(P)	DALTONGANJ	PALAMU	8,16,99,115 8 Crore+	Medical Practice	Medical Practice	2018-2019	1,31,40,266 1 Crore+	72,00,250 72 Lacs+

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

*Some Candidates may be exempted from filing Income tax returns

Candidates who have not declared Income Tax Details*: 33(17%) out of 189 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*: 5 candidates with assets worth more than Rs. 50 lakhs have not declared Income Tax details. The details of these 5 candidates with highest assets who have not declared their IT returns are as given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given	Self-Income
1	Md Alam	PALAMU	PANKI	BSP	12,31,500	5,09,00,000	5,21,31,500 5 Crore+	N	ITR not filed
2	Luwanti Kumari	PALAMU	PANKI	Rashtriya Mahila Party	4,29,968	1,00,00,000	1,04,29,968 1 Crore+	N	ITR not filed
3	Puranchand Saw	PALAMU	PANKI	CPI	4,27,000	64,00,000	68,27,000 68 Lacs+	N	ITR not filed
4	Abhay Kumar Pandey	GARHWA	BHAWANATHPUR	IND	8,14,000	60,00,000	68,14,000 68 Lacs+	N	ITR not filed
5	Santosh Kumar Paswan	LATEHAR	LATEHAR (SC)	IND	4,94,000	55,00,000	59,94,000 59 Lacs+	N	ITR not filed

Table: Top 5 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: 92 (49%) candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5^th and 12^thstandard, while 83 (44%) candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. 11 candidates are literate. There are 2 candidates who are Illiterate and 1 candidate holds a diploma in Oral Dental Hygienist.
Age details of candidates: 87(46%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 to 40 years while 85 (45%) candidates have declared their age to be between 41 to 60 years. There are 13(7%) candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years. 4 candidates have not declared their age.
Gender details of candidates: 15(8%) female candidates are contesting in the Jharkhand assembly election Phase I.