Press Release: Uttar Pradesh Assembly: Bye Elections 20th November, 2024 : Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender, and Other Details of Candidates

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Press Release

19th November, 2024

Dear Friends,

The Uttar Pradesh Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 90 candidates, who are contesting in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Bye-elections to be held in 9 constituencies on 20^th November, 2024.

The full reports in English and Hindi can be accessed on our website here: https://adrindia.org/content/Analysis-of-Candidates-Uttar-Pradesh-Assembly-Bye-Election-November-2024

Summary and Highlights

Criminal Background

Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of 90 candidates analyzed, 29 (32%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.

Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 24 (27%) have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

Party Name	Total number of candidates analyzed	Candidates with declared Criminal Cases	% of candidates with declared criminal cases	Candidates with declared serious criminal cases	% of candidates with declared serious criminal cases
SP	9	4	44%	3	33%
BSP	9	2	22%	2	22%
AAZAD SAMAJ PARTY (KANSHI RAM)	8	4	50%	3	38%
BJP	8	6	75%	4	50%
ALL INDIA MAJLIS-E-ITTEHADUL MUSLIMEEN	3	2	67%	2	67%
RLD	1	1	100%	0	0%
SARVJAN SUKHAY PARTY	1	1	100%	1	100%
PICHHRA SAMAJ PARTY	1	1	100%	1	100%
SARVA SAMAJ JANATA PARTY	1	1	100%	1	100%
SABHI JAN PARTY	1	1	100%	1	100%
PEACE PARTY	1	1	100%	1	100%
Independent	25	5	20%	5	20%
Other Parties	22	0	0%	0	0%
Total	90	29	32%	24	27%

Table: Party Wise Candidates with declared Criminal Cases

Financial Background

Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 90 candidates, 43(48%) are crorepatis.

Party Name	Number of Candidates Analyzed	No of Crorepatis	Percentage of Crorepati Candidates
BSP	9	8	89%
SP	9	8	89%
BJP	8	7	88%
AAZAD SAMAJ PARTY (KANSHI RAM)	8	5	63%
ALL INDIA MAJLIS-E-ITTEHADUL MUSLIMEEN	3	2	67%
RASHTRIYA JANMAT PARTY	1	1	100%
RASHTRIYA SAMAJ DAL (R)	1	1	100%
RLD	1	1	100%
MAJLOOM SAMAJ PARTY	1	1	100%
APNA DAL (KAMERAWADI)	2	1	50%
PRAGATISHEEL SAMAJ PARTY	1	1	100%
HINDUSTHAN NIRMAN DAL	1	1	100%
Independent	25	6	24%
Other Parties	20	0	0%
Total	90	43	48%

Table: Party Wise Crorepati Candidates

Average assets: The average of assets per candidate contesting in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Bye Elections 2024 is Rs 3.76 Crores.
High asset candidates: The details of top 3 candidates with highest declared assets, contesting in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Bye Elections are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Shuchismita Maurya	Mirzapur	Majhawan: Bye Election On 20-11-2024	BJP	35,37,92,448	15,29,00,000	50,66,92,448 50 Crore+	Y
2	Sumbul Rana	Muzaffarnagar	Meerapur: Bye Election On 20-11-2024	SP	23,51,13,735	16,58,06,060	40,09,19,795 40 Crore+	Y
3	Singh Raj Jatav	Ghaziabad	Ghaziabad: Bye Election On 20-11-2024	SP	10,95,81,665	18,00,00,000	28,95,81,665 28 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three candidates with highest declared assets

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	Rupesh Chandra	Ghaziabad	Ghaziabad: Bye Election On 20-11-2024	IND	18,000	0	18,000 18 Thou+	Y
2	Reeta Vishwakarma	Prayagraj	Phulpur: Bye Election On 20-11-2024	IND	27,000	0	27,000 27 Thou+	Y
3	Gayatri	Prayagraj	Phulpur: Bye Election On 20-11-2024	IND	27,162	0	27,162 27 Thou+	Y

Table: Candidates with declared lowest assets

Candidates with high liabilities: 37(41%) 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)	PAN Given
1	Shuchismita Maurya	Mirzapur	Majhawan: Bye Election On 20-11-2024	BJP	50,66,92,448 50 Crore+	6,06,00,000 6 Crore+	Y
2	Sumbul Rana	Muzaffarnagar	Meerapur: Bye Election On 20-11-2024	SP	40,09,19,795 40 Crore+	3,63,38,738 3 Crore+	Y
3	Jitendra Kumar Singh	Prayagraj	Phulpur: Bye Election On 20-11-2024	BSP	12,05,29,407 12 Crore+	2,78,02,488 2 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 Name	Constituency	District	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 candidate	Total income shown by candidate in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self income shown by candidate in ITR (Rs)
1	Sumbul Rana	SP	MEERAPUR: BYE ELECTION ON 20-11-2024	MUZAFFARNAGAR	40,09,19,795 40 Crore+	Business, Salary and Agriculture Income	Business, Salary and Agriculture Income	2023-2024	1,46,94,531 1 Crore+	1,02,34,017 1 Crore+
2	Shuchismita Maurya	BJP	MAJHAWAN: BYE ELECTION ON 20-11-2024	MIRZAPUR	50,66,92,448 50 Crore+	Business	Business	2023-2024	1,06,88,950 1 Crore+	9,82,440 9 Lacs+
3	Deepak Patel	BJP	PHULPUR: BYE ELECTION ON 20-11-2024	PRAYAGRAJ	25,17,84,384 25 Crore+	Advocate, Agriculture, Rent & Consultancy	Consultancy & Service	2022-2023	52,77,752 52 Lacs+	35,30,347 35 Lacs+

Table: Top 3 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 candidates: 33(37%) candidates have declared their educational qualifications to be between 5^th and 12^thstandard while 49(54%) candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. 1 candidate is diploma holder, 5 candidates have declared themselves to be just literate and 2 candidates are Illiterate.

Age details of candidates: 36(40%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 to 40 years while 44 (49%) candidates have declared their age to be between 41 to 60 years. There are 10(11%) candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 70 years.