Press Release: Himachal Pradesh Assembly Elections 2022: Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and Other Details of Winning Candidates

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Date: December 9, 2022

Dear Friends,

Himachal Pradesh Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 68 winning candidates in the Himachal Pradesh 2022 Assembly Elections.

For the complete English and Hindi reports, please go to: https://adrindia.org/content/analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender-and-other-details-winning-1

Summary and Highlights

Figure: Final Party Position

Criminal Background

Winning candidates with criminal cases: Out of the 68 winning candidates analysed in 2022, 28(41%) winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Out of 68 MLAs analysed during Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections in 2017, 22(32%) MLAs had declared criminal cases against themselves.

Winning candidates with serious criminal cases: 12 (18%) winning candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves. Out of 68 MLAs analysed during Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections in 2017, 8 (12%) MLAs had declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

Figure: Comparison of declared criminal cases of MLAs of 2017 vs Winning candidate 2022

Winning candidates with cases related to Murder: 1 winner candidate has declared case related to murder (IPC Section-302) against himself.

Winning candidates with cases related to Crimes against Women: 1 winner candidate has declared cases related to crimes against women.

Party wise Winning candidates with Criminal Cases: 23 (58%) out of 40 winning candidates from INC and 5(20%) out of 25 winning candidates from BJP have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party wise Winning candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 9 (23%) out of 40 winning candidates from INC and 3(12%) out of 25 winning candidates from BJP 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 68 winning candidates analysed, 63 (93%) are crorepatis. Out of 68 MLAs analysed during Himachal Pradesh assembly elections 2017, 52 (76%) MLAs were crorepatis.

Figure: Percentage of Crorepati MLAs 2017 and Winning Candidates 2022

Party-wise crorepati winning candidates: 38 (95%) out of 40 from INC, 22 (88%) out of 25 from BJP and 3 (100%) 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

Average assets: The average of assets per winning candidates in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly Elections 2022 is Rs 13.26 Crores. The average of assets per MLA in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly Elections 2017 was Rs 8.88 crore.

Figure: Comparison of Average Assets (Rs. in Crores) 2017 vs 2022

Party wise average assets: The average assets per winning candidate for 40 INC winning candidates is Rs 14.25 Crores, 25 BJP winning candidates is Rs 12.42 Crores and 3 Independent winning candidates have average assets worth Rs 7.09 Crores.

High asset winning candidates: The top three winning candidates with high assets are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Balbir Singh Verma	Shimla	Chopal	BJP	4,65,25,778	1,23,80,00,000	1,28,45,25,778 128 Crore+	Y
2	Vikramaditya Singh	Shimla	Shimla Rural	INC	11,05,69,447	90,33,91,586	1,01,39,61,033 101 Crore+	Y
3	R.S. Bali	Kangra	Nagrota	INC	14,90,27,042	77,46,00,000	92,36,27,042 92 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	Lokender Kumar	Kullu	Anni (SC)	BJP	9,00,000	20,00,000	29,00,000 29 Lacs+	Y
2	Chander Shekhar	Mandi	Dharampur	INC	15,99,633	30,00,000	45,99,633 45 Lacs+	Y
3	Dalip Thakur	Mandi	Sarkaghat	BJP	14,49,301	51,65,938	66,15,239 66 Lacs+	Y

Table: Three winning candidates with lowest declared assets

Winning candidates with high liabilities: 16 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)	PAN Given
1	Sudarshan Singh Babloo	Una	Chintpurni (SC)	INC	2,64,61,800 2 Crore+	10,35,96,766 10 Crore+	Y
2	Ram Kumar	Solan	Doon	INC	73,76,21,068 73 Crore+	8,05,57,202 8 Crore+	Y
3	Ashish Butail	Kangra	Palampur	INC	30,25,22,481 30 Crore+	7,64,31,200 7 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	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 winning candidate	Total income shown by winning candidate in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self-income shown by winning candidate in ITR (Rs)
1	R.S. Bali	INC	Nagrota	Kangra	92,36,27,042 92 Crore+	Business and rental Income	Professional salary	2021-2022	2,93,79,335 2 Crore+	2,76,84,249 2 Crore+
2	Bhawani Singh Pathania	INC	Fatehpur	Kangra	18,02,30,183 18 Crore+	Salary income from service ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd. Till July 2021 and Thereafter w.e.f. Nov. 2021 till date Salary of MLA Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha	NiL	2020-2021	1,88,61,290 1 Crore+	1,88,61,290 1 Crore+
3	Ram Kumar	INC	Doon	Solan	73,76,21,068 73 Crore+	Business, Rental Income from Commercial and Industrial Properties & Agriculture	Business, Rental Income from Commercial and Industrial Properties & Agriculture	2022-2023	1,33,57,220 1 Crore+	65,24,780 65 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: 16 (24%) winning candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 10^th pass and 12^th pass, while 52 (76%) winning candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate and above.

Age details of winning candidates: 29 (43%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 25 and 50 years while 38 (56%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 51 and 80 years and 1 winner candidate has declared his age 82 years.

Gender details of winning candidates: Out of 68 winning candidates analysed, Only 1 winner candidate is a woman. In 2017, out of 68 MLAs, 4 (6%) MLAs were women.