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

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Press Release

Date: December 8, 2022

Dear Friends,

The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Delhi Election Watch have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 248 out of 250 winning candidates in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Elections 2022. 2 winning candidates were not analysed due to the unavailability of their clear and complete affidavits on the SEC Delhi website at the time of making this report.

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

Summary and Highlights

Figure: Final Party Position

Criminal Background

Winning candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of the 248 winning candidates analysed in 2022, 42(17%) winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Out of 266 Councillors analysed during MCD elections in 2017, 26(10%) Councillors had declared criminal cases against themselves.

Winning candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 19(8%) winners have declared serious criminal cases against themselves. Out of 266 Councillors analysed during MCD elections in 2017, 14 (5%) Councillors had declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

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

Winning candidates with cases related to Attempt to Murder: 1 winning candidate has declared case of attempt to murder (IPC Section-307).

Winning candidates with cases related to Crime against Women: 3 winning candidates have declared cases of crime against women such as assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty (IPC Section-354) and related to Husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty (IPC Section-498A) etc.

Party wise winning candidates with Criminal Cases: 27 (21%) out of 132 winning candidates from AAP, 12 (12%) out of 104 winning candidates from BJP, 2(67%) out of 3 Independent winning candidates and 1 (11%) out of 9 winning candidates from INC have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party wise winning candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 12 (9%) out of 132 winning candidates from AAP, 6 (6%) out of 104 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 248 winning candidates analysed, 167 (67%) are crorepatis. Out of 266 councillors analysed during MCD elections 2017, 135 (51%) councillors were crorepatis.

Figure: Comparison of crorepati Councillors 2017 and Winning candidates 2022

Party-wise crorepati winning candidates: 82 (79%) out of 104 from BJP, 77 (58%) out of 132 from AAP, 6 (67%) out of 9 from INC and 2 (67%) out of 3 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 MCD Elections 2022 is Rs 4.33 Crores. The average of assets per councillors in the MCD Elections 2017 was Rs 2.94 crore.

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

Party wise average assets: The average assets per winning candidate for 104 BJP winning candidates is Rs 5.29 Crores, 132 AAP winning candidates is Rs 3.56 Crores, 9 INC winning candidates is Rs 4.09 Crores and 3 Independent candidates have average assets worth Rs 5.53 Crore.

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

S.No.	Name	District	Ward	Party	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Raj Pal Singh	South-East	174-Sri Niwas Puri	BJP	2,35,80,315	45,37,83,557	47,73,63,872 47 Crore+	Y
2	Manju Setia	West	98-Subhash Nagar	AAP	7,99,34,039	35,00,11,700	42,99,45,739 42 Crore+	Y
3	Vineet Vohra	North	59-Pachim Vihar	BJP	4,94,51,199	33,00,00,000	37,94,51,199 37 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	Ward	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Rafia Mahir	Central	78-Bazar Sita Ram	AAP	64,000	0	64,000 64 Thou+	Y
2	Ashu Thakur	New Delhi	171-Chitaranjan Park	AAP	1,15,000	0	1,15,000 1 Lacs+	Y
3	Shivani Panchal	Shahdara	223-Rohtash Nagar	AAP	1,23,000	0	1,23,000 1 Lacs+	Y

Table: Three winning candidates with lowest declared assets

Winning candidates with high liabilities: 24 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	Ward	Party	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Manju Setia	West	98-Subhash Nagar	AAP	42,99,45,739 42 Crore+	10,94,52,700 10 Crore+	Y
2	Puneet Rai	West	91-Ramesh Nagar	AAP	9,33,27,926 9 Crore+	8,65,99,790 8 Crore+	Y
3	Mukesh Kumar Bansal	Shahdara	236-Kardam Puri	BJP	10,20,91,179 10 Crore+	6,49,69,065 6 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	Ward	District	Total Asset (Rs)	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	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+
2	Shikha Bhardwaj	BJP	58-Saraswati Vihar	North	2,32,48,501 2 Crore+	2021-2022	73,24,450 73 Lacs+	4,87,880 4 Lacs+
3	Ramesh Kumar Garg	BJP	204-Preet Vihar	Shahdara	9,66,91,843 9 Crore+	2021-2022	60,67,967 60 Lacs+	8,62,990 8 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: 126 (51%) winning candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5^th pass and 12^th pass, while 116 (47%) winning candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate and above. 4 winning candidates are Diploma holders and 2 winning candidates are Illiterate.

Age details of winning candidates: 84(34%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 21 and 40 years while 164 (66%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 41 and 70 years.

Gender details of winning candidates: Out of 248 winning candidates analysed, 132 (53%) winning candidates are women, and one transgender candidate from AAP (Bobi) has won from Sultanpuri-A ward. In 2017, out of 266 councillors, 139(52%) councillors were women.

Comparative Analysis Of Assets Of Re-Elected Councillors

Number of re-elected Councillors: Number of re-elected Councillors analysed in the MCD elections of 2022 is 37.

Average assets of re-elected Councillors in 2017: The average assets of re-elected Councillors in 2017 was Rs 4.54 crore.

Average assets of re-elected Councillors in 2022: The average assets of re-elected Councillors in 2022 is Rs 6.26 crores.

Average growth in assets of re-elected Councillors from 2017 to 2022: The growth in average assets of re-elected Councillors is Rs 1.71 crore i.e. by 38%.