Press release: Haryana Assembly Election 2024 : Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other details of Winning Candidates

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Press Release

Date: October 9, 2024

Dear Friends,

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Haryana Election Watch have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 90 winning candidates in the Haryana 2024 Assembly Elections.

The full reports in English and Hindi can be accessed here: https://adrindia.org/content/Analysis-of-Criminal-Financial-and-other-Details-of-Winning-Candidates-Haryan-Assembly-Elections-2024

Summary and Highlights

Figure: Final Party Position

Criminal Background

Winning candidates with criminal cases: Out of the 90 winning candidates analysed in 2024 12(13%) winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Out of 90 MLAs analysed during Haryana Assembly elections in 2019, 12(13%) MLAs had declared criminal cases against themselves.

Winning candidates with serious criminal cases: 6(7%) winning candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves. Out of 90 MLAs analysed during Haryana Assembly elections in 2019, 7 (8%) MLAs had declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

Figure: Comparison of declared criminal cases of MLAs of 2009, 2014, 2019 and winning candidates 2024

Winning candidates with declared cases related to attempt to murder: 1 candidate has declared a case related to Attempt to murder (IPC Section-307) against himself.

Party wise winning candidates with criminal cases: 7(19%) out of 37 Winning candidates from INC, 3(6%) out of 48 Winning candidates from BJP and 2 (67%) out of 3 Independent winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party wise winning candidates with serious criminal cases: 4(11%) out of 37 Winning candidates from INC, 1(2%) out of 48 Winning candidates from BJP and 1 (33%) out of 3 Independent winning candidates 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 90 winning candidates analysed, 86 (96%) are crorepatis. Out of 90 MLAs analysed during Haryana assembly elections 2019, 84 (93%) MLAs were crorepatis.

Figure: Percentage of Crorepati MLAs 2009, 2014, 2019 and Winning Candidates 2024

Party-wise crorepati winning candidates: 46(96%) out of 48 winning candidates from BJP, 35 (95%) out of 37 winning candidates from INC, 2 (100%) winning candidates from INLD 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

Share of Wealth among winning candidates: The table given below shows the share of wealth among winning candidates in Haryana Assembly Elections, 2024:

Value of assets (Rs.)	No. of winning candidates	Percentage of winning candidates
Rs. 10 crores and above	44	48.9%
Rs. 5 crores to Rs. 10 crores	20	22.2%
Rs. 1 crore to Rs. 5 crores	22	24.4%
Rs. 20 lakhs Rs. 1 crore	2	2.2%
less than Rs. 20 lakhs	2	2.2%

Table: Share of Wealth Among winning candidates

Average assets: The average of assets per winning candidates in the Haryana Assembly Elections 2024 is Rs 24.97 Crores. The average of assets per MLA in the Haryana Assembly Elections 2019 was Rs 18.29 crore.

Figure: Comparison of Average Assets (Rs. in Crores) 2009, 2014, 2019 vs 2024

Party wise average assets: The average assets per winning candidate for 48 BJP winning candidates is Rs 24.35 Crores, 37 INC winning candidates is Rs 17.97 Crores, 2 INLD winning candidates is Rs 36.22 Crores and 3 Independent winning candidates have average assets worth Rs 113.84 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	Savitri Jindal	Hisar	Hisar	IND	1,90,09,81,000	80,56,26,000	2,70,66,07,000 270 Crore+	Y
2	Shakti Rani Sharma	Panchkula	Kalka	BJP	1,12,18,67,000	33,05,00,000	1,45,23,67,000 145 Crore+	Y
3	Shruti Choudhry	Bhiwani	Tosham	BJP	24,44,96,000	1,10,12,03,000	1,34,56,99,000 134 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	Kapoor Singh	Bhiwani	Bawani Khera (SC)	BJP	3,20,000	4,00,000	7,20,000 7 Lacs+	Y
2	Devender Hans	Kaithal	Guhla (SC)	INC	9,77,000	0	9,77,000 9 Lacs+	Y
3	Jarnail Singh	Fatehabad	Ratia (SC)	INC	37,05,573	16,30,000	53,35,573 53 Lacs+	Y

Table: Three winning candidates with lowest declared assets

Winning candidates with high liabilities: 28 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	Rajbir Fartia	Bhiwani	Loharu	INC	59,88,94,116 59 Crore+	44,18,17,894 44 Crore+	Y
2	Chander Mohan	Panchkula	Panchkula	INC	80,88,94,037 80 Crore+	34,80,00,000 34 Crore+	Y
3	Rajesh Joon	Jhajjar	Bahadurgarh	IND	61,03,04,000 61 Crore+	19,37,00,000 19 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 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 winning candidates	Total income shown by winning candidates in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self-income shown by winning candidates in ITR (Rs)
1	Rajbir Fartia	INC	Loharu	Bhiwani	59,88,94,116 59 Crore+	Director Remuneration	Consultant	2023-2024	10,75,11,900 10 Crore+	10,58,04,070 10 Crore+
2	Parmod Kumar Vij	BJP	Panipat City	Panipat	72,56,08,684 72 Crore+	Business, Rental, MLA, Remuneration/Pension, Interest Income, Share Market & Mutual Fund Income	Business, Rental, Interest Income, Share Market & Mutual Fund Income	2022-2023	6,79,24,117 6 Crore+	4,50,84,811 4 Crore+
3	Rajesh Joon	IND	Bahadurgarh	Jhajjar	61,03,04,000 61 Crore+	Hospital	Nil	2022-2023	6,40,69,870 6 Crore+	6,35,82,080 6 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: 26 (29%) winning candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 8^th pass and 12^th pass, while 61 (68%) winning candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate and above and 2 winning candidates who are Diploma holders and 1 winner candidate has declared himself just literate.

Age details of winning candidates: 31 (34%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 25 and 50 years while 59 (66%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 51 and 80 years.

Gender details of winning candidates: Out of 90 winning candidates analysed, 13 (14%) winning candidates are women. In 2019, out of 90 MLAs, 9 (10%) MLAs were women.