Press Release: Municipal Corporation of Delhi Elections, 2022: Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other Details of Candidates

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Press Release

26th November, 2022

Dear Friends,

The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Delhi Election Watch have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 1336 candidates out of 1349, who are contesting in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Elections to be held on 4^th December, 2022.

The full reports in English and Hindi can be accessed here: https://adrindia.org/content/analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender-and-other-details-candidates-8

Summary and Highlights

Criminal Background

Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of 1336 candidates analyzed, 139 (10%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. In 2017 MCD Elections, out of 2315 candidates analysed, 173(7%) had declared criminal cases against themselves.

Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 76(6%) have declared serious criminal cases against themselves. In 2017 MCD Elections, 116 (5%) candidates had declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

Figure: Comparative analysis of Candidates with declared Criminal Cases: 2017 vs 2022

Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 45(18%) out of 248 candidates analysed from AAP, 27(11%) out of 249 candidates analysed from BJP and 25 (10%) out of 245 candidates analysed from INC have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Candidates with Criminal Cases

Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 19(8%) out of 248 candidates analysed from AAP, 14(6%) out of 249 candidates analysed from BJP and 12 (5%) out of 245 candidates analysed from INC have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Candidates with declared cases related to murder: 1 candidate has declared cases related to murder (IPC Section-302) against himself.

Candidates with declared cases related to attempt to murder: 6 candidates have declared cases related to Attempt to murder (IPC Section-307) against themselves.

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 MCD elections 2022 is as follows:

Value of assets (Rs.)	Number of candidates	Percentage of Candidates
5 crores and above	151	11.3%
2 crores to 5 crores	217	16.2%
50 lakhs to 2 crores	365	27.3%
10 lakhs to 50 lakhs	320	24.0%
less than 10 lakhs	283	21.2%

Table: Share of wealth amongst contesting candidates

Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 1336 candidates, 556(42%) are crorepatis. In 2017 MCD Elections, out of 2315 candidates, 697 (30%) were crorepatis.

Figure: Comparative Analysis of Crorepati Candidates: 2017 vs 2022

Party wise Crorepati Candidates: The role of money power in our elections is evident from the fact that all major political parties give tickets to wealthy candidates. Among the major parties 162(65%) out of 249 candidates analysed from BJP, 148(60%) out of 248 candidates analysed from AAP and 107(44%) out of 245 candidates analysed from INC have declared assets valued more than Rs 1 crore.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Crorepati Candidates

Average assets: The average of assets per candidate contesting in the MCD Elections 2022 is Rs 2.27 Crores. In 2017 MCD Elections, average assets per candidate for 2315 candidates was Rs.1.61 crores.

Party wise average assets: Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 249 BJP candidates analysed is Rs. 4.04 Crores, 248 AAP candidates analysed is Rs 3.74 Crores and 245 INC candidates have average assets worth Rs 1.98 Crore.

High asset candidates: The details of top 3 candidates with highest declared assets, contesting in the MCD Elections are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Ward	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Ram Dev Sharma	Central	79-Ballimaran	BJP	11,48,48,642	55,42,40,320	66,90,88,962 66 Crore+	Y
2	Nandini Sharma	South	149-Malviya Nagar	BJP	9,39,38,258	40,45,00,000	49,84,38,258 49 Crore+	Y
3	Jitender Bansala	North-East	248-Karawai Nagar-West	AAP	1,52,35,651	46,75,00,000	48,27,35,651 48 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three candidates with highest declared assets

Zero assets candidates: There are 2 candidates who have declared zero assets. The details of these candidates is given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Ward	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Reeta	South-West	123-Kakrola	IND	0	0	0	Y
2	Beena Devi	South-West	130-Dwarka-C	IND	0	0	0	Y

Table: Candidates with declared zero assets

Low assets candidates: The details of three candidates with lowest assets (excluding zero assets candidates) are as follows:

S.No.	Name	District	Ward	Party	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Kusum Yadav	South-West	132-Kapashera	IND	2,000	0	2,000 2 Thou+	Y
2	Pankaj Rana	Central	70-Shastri Nagar	INC	2,517	0	2,517 2 Thou+	Y
3	Sunita	New Delhi	153-Vasant Vihar	BSP	3,570	0	3,570 3 Thou+	N

Table: Candidates with declared lowest assets

Candidates with high liabilities: 643(48%) candidates have declared liabilities in their affidavits. The details of top three candidates with highest liabilities are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Ward	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Kuldip Mittal	North	53-Rohini-E	AAP	14,81,93,991 14 Crore+	19,58,07,452 19 Crore+	34,40,01,443 34 Crore+	15,43,63,962 15 Crore+	Y
2	Manju Setia	West	98-Subhash Nagar	AAP	7,99,34,039 7 Crore+	35,00,11,700 35 Crore+	42,99,45,739 42 Crore+	10,94,52,700 10 Crore+	Y
3	Jitender Kumar	South-East	146-Amar Colony	AAP	4,66,92,610 4 Crore+	21,22,00,000 21 Crore+	25,88,92,610 25 Crore+	10,07,41,417 10 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three candidates with highest liabilities

Candidates with high income as declared in the ITR*: The details of top 3 candidates with high income declared in ITR are given below:

S.No.	Name	Party	Ward	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	Jitender Kumar	AAP	146-AMAR COLONY	South-East	25,88,92,610 25 Crore+	2021-2022	1,41,41,640 1 Crore+	87,26,560 87 Lacs+
2	Preeti Gupta	BJP	231-GHONDA	North-East	17,50,57,950 17 Crore+	2021-2022	87,32,658 87 Lacs+	38,80,708 38 Lacs+
3	Ram Dev Sharma	BJP	79-BALLIMARAN	Central	66,90,88,962 66 Crore+	2020-2021	86,53,860 86 Lacs+	53,72,010 53 Lacs+

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

Undeclared PAN: A total of 20(1%) candidates have not declared their PAN details.

Other Background Details

Education details of candidates: 752(56%) candidates have declared their educational qualifications to be between 5^th and 12^thstandard while 487 (36%) candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. 12 candidates are Diploma holders. 22 candidates have declared themselves to be just literate and 60 candidates are Illiterates. 3 candidates have not given their educational qualification.

Age details of candidates: 510(38%) candidates have declared their age to be between 21 to 40 years while 741 (55%) candidates have declared their age to be between 41 to 60 years. There are 73(5%) candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years and 12 candidates have not declared their age.

Gender details of candidates: 693(52%) female candidates are contesting in the MCD election 2022. In 2017 MCD Elections, 1127(49%) out of 2315 candidates analysed were women.

Party wise Gender Details

S.No.	Party Name	Total candidates analyzed	Men	Women	% of Women candidates
1	Independent	380	209	171	45%
2	BJP	249	113	136	55%
3	AAP	248	112	136	55%
4	INC	245	113	132	54%
5	BSP	129	56	73	57%
6	NCP	24	10	14	58%
7	JD(U)	21	12	9	43%
8	AIMIM	15	6	9	60%
9	CPI(M)	6	2	4	67%
10	CPI(ML)(L)	5	3	2	40%
11	RLD	4	1	3	75%
12	AIFB	4	3	1	25%
13	CPI	3	1	2	67%
14	IUML	1	1	0	0%
15	LJP(Ram Vilas)	1	0	1	100%
16	SP	1	1	0	0%
Total		1336	643	693	52%