Press Release: Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other details of West Bengal Sitting MLAs

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Date: March 3, 2021

Dear Friends,

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and West Bengal Election Watch have analyzed the criminal, financial and other background details of 282 out of 294 sitting MLAs. In the current assembly, 10 seats are vacant. Two MLAs namely SUDARSAN GHOSH DOSTIDAR of AITC and ALI IMRAN RAMZ of AIFB are not analysed due to unclear affidavits available on the ECI website at the time of making this report. This analysis is based on the affidavits submitted by the candidates prior to the 2016 Assembly elections and bye elections conducted thereafter.

For the complete reports in Hindi and English, please see: https://adrindia.org/content/west-bengal-assembly-election-2016-analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender

CRIMINAL BACKGROUND

MLAs with criminal cases: Out of 282 sitting MLAs analysed, 104(37%) MLAs have declared criminal cases against themselves.

MLAs with serious criminal cases: 90(32%) MLAs have declared serious criminal cases.

MLAs with declared cases related to murder: 7 MLAs have declared cases related to murder (IPC section 302).

MLAs with declared cases related to attempt to murder: 24 MLA has declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC section 307).

MLAs with cases related to Crimes against Women: 10 MLAs have declared cases related to crimes against women (IPC Section-354).

Party wise sitting MLAs with criminal cases: 68(33%) out of 205 MLAs from AITC, 20(51%) out of 39 MLAs from INC, 11(46%) out of 24 MLAs from CPI(M), 3(50%) out of 6 MLAs from BJP and 1(100%) out of 1 each MLAs from CPI and Independent have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party wise sitting MLAs with serious criminal cases: 61(30%) out of 205 MLAs from AITC, 15(39%) out of 39 MLAs from INC, 10(42%) out of 24 MLAs from CPI(M), 3(50%) out of 6 MLAs from BJP and 1(100%) out of 1 MLA from Independent have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Figure: Party wise percentage of MLAs with declared criminal cases

FINANCIAL BACKGROUND

Crorepati MLAs: Out of 282 sitting MLAs analysed , 97(34%) are crorepatis.

Party wise crorepati MLAs: 78(38%)out of 205 MLAs from AITC , 13(33%) out of 39 MLAs from INC, 2(8%) out of 24 MLAs from CPI(M), 2(33%) out of 6 MLAs from BJP and 1-1each MLAs from Revolutionary Socialist Party and Independent have declared assets valued more than Rs 1 crore.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Crorepati MLAs

Average assets: The average assets per sitting MLA is Rs 1.49 crore.

Party wise average assets: The average assets per MLA for 205 AITC MLAs analysed is Rs 1.79 crores, 39 INC MLAs analysed is Rs 78.30 lakhs, 24 CPI(M) MLAs analysed is Rs 43.40 lakhs, 6 BJPMLAs analysed is Rs 1.32 crores and 3 Revolutionary Socialist Party MLAs have average assets of Rs 80.34 lakhs.
High asset MLAs:The top three MLAs 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	Samir Chakraborty	Bankura	Taldangra	AITC	28,91,17,000	11,68,06,000	40,59,23,000 40 Crore+	Y
2	Jakir Hossain	Murshidabad	Jangipur	AITC	17,27,25,923	10,77,59,779^*	28,04,85,702 28 Crore+	Y
3	Javed Ahmed Khan	South 24 Parganas	Kasba	AITC	14,02,03,869	3,27,78,000	17,29,81,869 17 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three MLAs with highest declared assets

Low asset MLAs: The details of three MLAs 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	Sk Ibrahim Ali	PURBO MEDINIPUR	PANSKURA PURBA	CPI(M)	49,730	0	49,730 49 Thou+	N
2	Pundarikakshya Saha	NADIA	NABADWIP	AITC	75,423	0	75,423 75 Thou+	Y
3	Ajit Ray	BANKURA	SONAMUKHI (SC)	CPI(M)	94,797	30,000^*	1,24,797 1 Lacs+	Y

Table: Top three MLAs with lowest declared assets

MLAs with high liabilities: 13 MLAs have declared liabilities of Rs 50 lakhs and above, and the details of the top 3 MLAs are as follows:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Javed Ahmed Khan	SOUTH 24 PARGANAS	KASBA	AITC	17,29,81,869 17 Crore+	30,19,85,861 30 Crore+	Y
2	Asok Kumar Chattopadhyay	BIRBHUM	SURI	AITC	13,54,36,705 13 Crore+	4,31,06,920 4 Crore+	Y
3	Pawan Kumar Singh	NORTH 24 PARGANAS	BHATPARA : BYE ELECTION ON 19-05-2019	BJP	5,75,28,207 5 Crore+	1,62,50,000 1 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three MLAs with high liabilities

MLAs with high income as declared in ITR*:The table below shows 3 MLAs who have declared highest income in their Income Tax Returns.

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Constituency	District Name	Total Asset (Rs)	The financial year for which the last income tax return has been filed by MLA	Total income shown by MLA in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self-income shown by MLA in ITR (Rs)
1	Jakir Hossain	AITC	JANGIPUR	MURSHIDABAD	28,04,85,702 28 Crore+	2014-2015	1,89,97,290 1 Crore+	1,35,67,680 1 Crore+
2	Samir Chakraborty	AITC	TALDANGRA	BANKURA	40,59,23,000 40 Crore+	2014-2015	1,21,36,027 1 Crore+	1,03,36,141 1 Crore+
3	Laxmi Ratan Shukla	AITC	HOWRAH UTTAR	HOWRAH	5,16,07,445 5 Crore+	2014-2015	1,15,77,110 1 Crore+	1,11,97,410 1 Crore+

Table: Top 3 MLAs with high income as declared in income tax returns

MLAs who have not declared Income Tax Details*: 57 (20%) MLAs out of 282 analyzed have not declared income tax details.

* Some MLAs may be exempted from filing Income Tax Returns

OTHER BACKGROUND DETAILS

Education Details of MLAs: 92 (33%) MLAs have declared their educational qualifications to be between 8^th pass and 12^th pass while 187 (66%) MLAs have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. 2 MLAs are diploma holders and 1 MLA is just literate.

Age details of MLAs: 96(34%) MLAs have declared their age to be between 25 and 50 years while 185 (66%) MLAs have declared their age to be between 51 and 80 years and 1 MLA has declared his age as 91 years.