Press Release: Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 : Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other details of winning candidates

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Date: November 11, 2020

Dear Friends,

Bihar Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 241 out of 243 winning candidates in the Bihar 2020 Assembly Elections.

For the complete English and Hindi reports, please go to: https://adrindia.org/content/bihar-assembly-election-2020-analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender-and

Summary and Highlights

Figure: Final Party Position

CRIMINAL BACKGROUND

Winning candidates with criminal cases: Out of the 241 winning candidates analysed in 2020, 163(68%) winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Out of 243 MLAs analysed during Bihar Assembly elections in 2015, 142(58%) MLAs had declared criminal cases against themselves.
Winning candidates with serious criminal cases: 123 (51%) winning candidates have declared serious criminal cases including cases related to murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, crimes against women etc.

Figure: Comparison of declared criminal cases of MLAs of 2015 vs Winning candidates 2020

Winning candidates with cases related to Murder: 19 winning candidates have declared cases related to murder (IPC Section-302) against themselves.
Winning candidates with cases related to Attempt to Murder: 31 winning candidates have declared cases of attempt to murder (IPC Section-307).
Winning candidates with cases related to Crimes against Women: 8 winning candidates have declared cases related to crimes against women.
Party wise Winning candidates with Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 54(73%) out of 74 winning candidates from RJD, 47(64%) out of 73 winning candidates from BJP, 20(47%) out of 43 winning candidates from JD(U), 16(84%) out of 19 winning candidates from INC, 10(83%) out of 12 winning candidates from CPI(ML)(L) and 5(100%) out of 5 winning candidates from AIMIM have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
Party wise Winning candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 44(60%) out of 74 winning candidates from RJD, 35(48%) out of 73 winning candidates from BJP, 11(26%) out of 43 winning candidates from JD(U), 11(58%) out of 19 winning candidates from INC, 8(67%) out of 12 winning candidates from CPI(ML)(L) and 5(100%) out of 5 winning candidates from AIMIM have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Figure: Party Wise Winning Candidates with Criminal Cases

FINANCIAL BACKGROUND

Crorepati Winning candidates: Out of the 241 winning candidates analysed, 194 (81%) are crorepatis. Out of 243 MLAs analysed during Bihar assembly elections 2015, 162 (67%) MLAs were crorepatis.

Figure: Comparison of crorepati MLAs 2015 and Winning candidates 2020

Party-wise crorepati winning candidates: Among the major parties, 65 (89%) out of 73 from BJP, 64 (87%) out of 74 from RJD, 38 (88%) out of 43 from JD(U) and 14 (74%) out of 19 from INC winning candidates have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.

Figure: Party wise Crorepati Winning Candidates

Figure: Share of Wealth Among Winning Candidates

Average assets: The average of assets per winning candidates in the Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 is Rs 4.32 Crore. The average of assets per MLA in the Bihar Assembly Elections 2015 was Rs 3.02 crores.

Figure: Comparison of Average Assets (Rs. in Crores): 2015 vs 2020

Party wise average assets: Among major parties, the average assets per winning candidates for 74 RJD winning candidates is Rs 5.92 crores, 19 INC winning candidates is Rs 5.18 crores, 43 JD(U) winning candidates is Rs 4.17 crores, and 73 BJP winning candidates have average assets worth Rs 3.56 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	Anant Kumar Singh	Patna	Mokama	RJD	18,49,28,795	50,07,50,000	68,56,78,795 68 Crore+	Y
2	Ajit Sharma	Bhagalpur	Bhagalpur	INC	4,90,41,009	38,37,50,000	43,27,91,009 43 Crore+	Y
3	Vibha Devi	Nawada	Nawada	RJD	20,22,61,748	8,85,00,000	29,07,61,748 29 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	Ramvriksh Sada	Khagaria	Alauli (Sc)	RJD	30,000	40,000	70,000 70 Thou+	N
2	Gopal Ravidas	Patna	Phulwari (Sc)	CPI(ML)(L)	59,000	1,00,000	1,59,000 1 Lacs+	Y
3	Manoj Manzil	Bhojpur	Agiaon (Sc)	CPI(ML)(L)	66,500	2,50,000	3,16,500 3 Lacs+	N

Table: Three winning candidates with lowest declared assets

Winning candidates with high liabilities: 20 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	Anant Kumar Singh	Patna	Mokama	RJD	68,56,78,795 68 Crore+	17,15,83,625 17 Crore+	Y
2	Shambhu Nath Yadav	Buxar	Brahampur	RJD	7,59,60,884 7 Crore+	13,49,50,000 13 Crore+	Y
3	Umakant Singh	Paschim Champaran	Chanpatia	BJP	15,41,37,653 15 Crore+	8,95,78,676 8 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 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 winner candidate	Total income shown by winner candidate in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self-income shown by winner candidate in ITR (Rs)
1	Kiran Devi	RJD	Sandesh	Bhojpur	17,58,53,453 17 Crore+	Milk Dairy, Animal Husbandry, Agriculture	Agriculture & Animal Husbandry	2020-2021	3,27,28,948 3 Crore+	1,02,17,390 1 Crore+
2	Anant Kumar Singh	RJD	Mokama	Patna	68,56,78,795 68 Crore+	Business & Agriculture, Salary from Legislative Assembly & House Rent	Business & Agriculture & House Rent	2019-2020	1,29,16,404 1 Crore+	8,86,143 8 Lacs+
3	Umakant Singh	BJP	Chanpatia	Paschim Champaran	15,41,37,653 15 Crore+	Agriculture and Business	Agriculture and teacher	2019-2020	1,20,33,220 1 Crore+	1,02,27,280 1 Crore+

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: 82 (34%) winning candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5^th pass and 12^th pass, while 149 (62%) winning candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate and above. There are 9 winning candidates who are literate and 1 winner candidate is Diploma holder.
Age details of winning candidates: 115 (48%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 25 and 50 years while 126 (52%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 51 and 80 years.
Gender details of winning candidates:Out of 241 winning candidates analysed, 26 (11%) winning candidates are women. In 2015, out of 243 MLAs, 28 (12%) MLAs were women.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ASSETS OF RE-ELECTED MLAs

Number of re-elected MLAs: Number of re-elected MLAs analysed in the Bihar assembly elections of 2020 is 96.
Average assets of re-elected MLAs in 2015: The average assets of re-elected MLAs in 2015 was Rs 3.15 crores.
Average assets of re-elected MLAs in 2020: The average assets of re-elected MLAs in 2020 is Rs 5.26 crores.
Average growth in assets of re-elected MLAs from 2015 to 2020: The growth in average assets of re-elected MLAs is Rs 2.11 crore i.e. by 67%.