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Press Release: Jharkhand Assembly Election 2024: Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender, and Other Details of Winning Candidates

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Press Release

Date: November 24, 2024

Dear Friends,

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Jharkhand Election Watch have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 80 out of 81 winning candidates in the Jharkhand 2024 Assembly Elections. One winner namely Kumar Jaimangal (Anup Singh) (INC) contesting from Bermo Constituency has not been analysed due to the unavailability of his clear and complete affidavit on the ECI website at the time of making this report.

The full reports in English and Hindi can be accessed here: https://adrindia.org/content/Jharkhand-Assembly-Elections-Winning-Candidates-Report-2024

Summary and Highlights

Figure: Final Party Position

Criminal Background

Winning candidates with criminal cases: Out of the 80 winning candidates analysed in 2024 43(54%) winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Out of 81 MLAs analysed during Jharkhand Assembly elections in 2019, 44(54%) MLAs had declared criminal cases against themselves.

Winning candidates with serious criminal cases: 36(45%) winning candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves. Out of 81 MLAs analysed during Jharkhand Assembly elections in 2019, 34 (42%) 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 murder: 2 winning candidates have declared cases related to murder (IPC Section-302) against themselves.

Winning candidates with declared cases related to attempt to murder: 19 winning candidates have declared cases related to Attempt to murder (IPC Section-307 and BNS Section-109) against themselves.

Winning candidates with declared cases related to crime against women: 5 winning candidates have declared cases related to crime against women. Out of 5 winning candidates 1 winning candidate has declared charge related to rape (IPC Section-376).

Party wise winning candidates with criminal cases: 12(35%) out of 34 Winning candidates from JMM, 13(62%) out of 21 Winning candidates from BJP, 8 (53%) out of 15 Winning candidates from INC, 4(100%) out of 4 Winning candidates from RJD, 2(100%) out of 2 Winning candidates from CPI(ML)(L), 1(100%) out of 1 Winning candidate from AJSU Party, 1(100%) out of 1 Winning candidate from Lok Janshakti Party(Ram Vilas), 1(100%) out of 1 Winning candidate from JD(U) and 1 (100%) out of 1 winning candidate from Jharkhand Loktantrik Krantikari Morcha have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party wise winning candidates with serious criminal cases: 9(26%) out of 34 Winning candidates from JMM, 11(52%) out of 21 Winning candidates from BJP, 6 (40%) out of 15 Winning candidates from INC, 4(100%) out of 4 Winning candidates from RJD, 2(100%) out of 2 Winning candidates from CPI(ML)(L), 1(100%) out of 1 Winning candidate from AJSU Party, 1(100%) out of 1 Winning candidate from Lok Janshakti Party(Ram Vilas), 1(100%) out of 1 Winning candidate from JD(U) and 1 (100%) out of 1 winning candidate from Jharkhand Loktantrik Krantikari Morcha 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 80 winning candidates analysed, 71 (89%) are crorepatis. Out of 81 MLAs analysed during Jharkhand assembly elections 2019, 56 (69%) MLAs were crorepatis.

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

Party-wise crorepati winning candidates: 28(82%) out of 34 winning candidates from JMM, 20 (95%) out of 21 winning candidates from BJP, 14 (93%) out of 15 winning candidates from INC, 4(100%) out of 4 winning candidates from RJD, 2(100%) out of 2 winning candidates from CPI(ML)(L), 1(100%) winning candidate from Lok Janshakti Party(Ram Vilas), 1(100%) winning candidate from JD(U) and 1(100%) winning candidate from AJSU party 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 Jharkhand Assembly Elections, 2024:

Value of assets (Rs.)	No. of winning candidates	Percentage of winning candidates
Rs. 10 crores and above	19	24%
Rs. 5 crores to Rs. 10 crores	13	16%
Rs. 1 crore to Rs. 5 crores	39	49%
Rs. 20 lakhs Rs. 1 crore	8	10%
less than Rs. 20 lakhs	1	1%

Table: Share of Wealth Among winning candidates

Average assets: The average of assets per winning candidates in the Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2024 is Rs 6.90 Crores. The average of assets per MLA in the Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2019 was Rs 3.87 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 34 JMM winning candidates is Rs 6.28 Crores, 21 BJP Winning candidates have average assets of Rs 7.57 Crores, 15 INC Winning candidates have average assets worth Rs 5.41 Crores, 4 RJD Winning candidates have average assets worth Rs 19.49 Crore and 2 CPI(ML)(L) Winning candidates have average assets of Rs. 3.91 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	Rameshwar Oraon	Lohardaga	Lohardaga (ST)	INC	2,36,90,436	39,83,45,359	42,20,35,795 42 Crore+	Y
2	Kushwaha Shashi Bhushan Mehta	Palamu	Panki	BJP	7,25,46,244	24,90,00,000	32,15,46,244 32 Crore+	Y
3	Sanjay Prasad Yadav	Godda	Godda	RJD	4,03,97,350	25,56,00,000	29,59,97,350 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	Jairam Kumar Mahato	Giridih	Dumri	Jharkhand Loktantrik Krantikari Morcha	55,965	2,00,000	2,55,965 2 Lacs+	Y
2	Manju Kumari	Giridih	Jamua (SC)	BJP	10,77,000	11,10,000	21,87,000 21 Lacs+	Y
3	Samir Kumar Mohanty	East Singhbhum	Baharagora	JMM	45,36,392	4,00,000	49,36,392 49 Lacs+	Y

Table: Three winning candidates with lowest declared assets

Winning candidates with high liabilities: 14 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)	Disputed liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Md. Tajuddin	Sahebganj	Rajmahal	JMM	19,39,39,135 19 Crore+	8,95,19,267 8 Crore+	0	Y
2	Navin Jaiswal	Ranchi	Hatia	BJP	18,42,36,000 18 Crore+	8,86,30,000 8 Crore+	0	Y
3	Shatrughan Mahto	Dhanbad	Baghmara	BJP	13,59,68,603 13 Crore+	8,17,30,572 8 Crore+	6,02,520 6 Lacs+	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	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	Basant Soren	JMM	Dumka (ST)	Dumka	12,68,72,256 12 Crore+	Salary (MLA), Business Income, Rental Income, Interest on FD	Income from Business	2023-2024	1,95,25,585 1 Crore+	1,90,36,110 1 Crore+
2	Kushwaha Shashi Bhushan Mehta	BJP	Panki	Palamu	32,15,46,244 32 Crore+	Business, Former MLA	Pension	2023-2024	1,93,60,740 1 Crore+	1,69,30,780 1 Crore+
3	Sudivya Kumar	JMM	Giridih	Giridih	15,17,90,794 15 Crore+	Salary from Vidhan Sabha, Business and other Income	Business and Other Sources	2023-2024	1,54,84,500 1 Crore+	23,10,170 23 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: 28(35%) winning candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 8^th pass and 12^th pass, while 50 (63%) winning candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate and above. 1 winner candidate is Diploma holder and 1 winner candidate has declared himself just literate.

Age details of winning candidates: 12(15%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 25 and 40 years while 52 (65%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 41 and 60 years. There are 16 (20%) winning candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years.

Gender details of winning candidates: Out of 80 winning candidates analysed, 12 (15%) winning candidates are women. In 2019, out of 81 MLAs, 10 (12%) MLAs were women.