Press Release: Analysis of Criminal, Financial, and Other background details of Union Council of Ministers Post Cabinet Expansion on 7th July, 2021

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Date: July 9, 2021

Dear Friends,

National Election Watch (NEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn latest affidavits of all 78 ministers (Including Prime Minister) from Lok Sabha 2019, current Rajya Sabha and assembly elections.

The full reports in English and Hindi can be accessed here: https://adrindia.org/content/17th-lok-sabha-analysis-criminal-financial-and-other-background-details-union-council

Summary and Highlights

Criminal Background

Ministers with Criminal Cases: Out of the 78 Ministers analysed, 33 (42%) Ministers have declared criminal cases against themselves.

Ministers with Serious Criminal Cases: 24 (31%) Ministers have declared serious criminal cases including cases related to murder, attempt to murder, Robbery etc.

Minister with case related to Murder: Nisith Pramanik from Cooch Behar Constituency has declared case related to murder (IPC Section-302) against himself.

Minister with case related to Attempt to Murder: 4 ministers have declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC Section-307).

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party	Total Cases	Serious IPC	Other IPC
1	John Barla	West Bengal	Alipurduars	BJP	9	24	38
2	Sri Nisith Pramanik	West Bengal	Cooch Behar	BJP	11	21	23
3	Pankaj Choudhary	Uttar Pradesh	Maharajganj	BJP	5	6	9
4	V. Muraleedharan	Maharashtra	Rajya Sabha Member	BJP	7	3	42

Ministers with cases related to causing Communal Disharmony: 5 Ministers have declared cases related to Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony (IPC Section-153A) and Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings or any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs (IPC Section-295A). The details of these Ministers are given below:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party	Total Cases	Serious IPC	Other IPC
1	Amit Shah	Gujarat	Gandhinagar	BJP	4	4	7
2	Giriraj Singh	Bihar	Begusarai	BJP	6	9	7
3	Shobha Karandlaje	Karnataka	Udupi Chikmagalur	BJP	3	1	3
4	Nityanand Rai	Bihar	Ujiarpur	BJP	3	4	3
5	Pralhad Joshi	Karnataka	Dharwad	BJP	1	1	1

Table: Ministers with declared cases related to causing Communal Disharmony

Ministers with cases related to Electoral Violations: 7 Ministers have declared cases related to Illegal payments in connection with an election (IPC Section-171H), Bribery (IPC Section – 171E) and undue influence or personation at an election (IPC Section-171F). The details of these Ministers are given below:

S. No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party	Total Cases	Serious IPC	Other IPC
1	Nitin Jairam Gadkari	Maharashtra	Nagpur	BJP	4	5	5
2	Satyapal Singh Baghel	UTTAR PRADESH	AGRA	BJP	5	8	9
3	Giriraj Singh	Bihar	Begusarai	BJP	6	9	7
4	Pankaj Choudhary	UTTAR PRADESH	MAHARAJGANJ	BJP	5	6	9
5	Ashwini Kumar Choubey	Bihar	Buxar	BJP	3	2	15
6	Bhagwanth Khuba	KARNATAKA	BIDAR	BJP	1	1	0
7	Kaushal Kishore	UTTAR PRADESH	MOHANLALGANJ	BJP	1	1	0

Table: Ministers with declared cases related to Electoral Violations

Financial Background

Crorepati Ministers: Out of the 78 Ministers analysed, 70 (90%) are crorepatis.

Average Assets: The average assets per Minister is Rs.16.24 crores.

High Asset Ministers*: 4 Ministers have declared more than Rs.50 crores worth of assets. These Ministers are as follows:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Jyotiraditya M. Scindia	Madhya Pradesh	Rajya Sabha Member	BJP	50,05,10,644	3,28,98,18,500	3,79,03,29,144 379 Crore+	Y
2	Goyal Piyush Vedprakash	Maharashtra	Rajya Sabha Member	BJP	78,71,42,134	16,66,44,300	95,37,86,434 95 Crore+	Y
3	Narayan Tatu Rane	Maharashtra	Rajya Sabha Member	BJP	44,83,89,483	42,93,94,622	87,77,84,105 87 Crore+	Y
4	Rajeev Chandrasekhar	Karnataka	Rajya Sabha Member	BJP	51,64,35,965	12,96,00,000	64,60,35,965 64 Crore+	Y

*Total Assets includes assets of self, spouse and dependents.

Low Asset Ministers: A total of 8 Ministers have declared assets less than Rs. 1 crore. These 8 Ministers with lowest assets are as follows:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Pratima Bhoumik	Tripura	Tripura West	BJP	2,50,398	3,92,000	6,42,398 6 Lacs+	Y
2	John Barla	West Bengal	Alipurduars	BJP	5,18,730	9,00,000^*	14,18,730 14 Lacs+	Y
3	Kailash Choudhary	Rajasthan	Barmer	BJP	24,02,250	0	24,02,250 24 Lacs+	Y
4	Bishweswar Tudu	Odisha	Mayurbhanj	BJP	17,42,000	10,00,000	27,42,000 27 Lacs+	Y
5	V. Muraleedharan	Maharashtra	Rajya Sabha Member	BJP	7,71,646	20,00,000	27,71,646 27 Lacs+	Y
6	Rameswar Teli	Assam	Dibrugarh	BJP	19,26,067	24,44,000	43,70,067 43 Lacs+	Y
7	Shantanu Thakur	West Bengal	Bangaon	BJP	52,65,388	0	52,65,388 52 Lacs+	Y
8	Sri Nisith Pramanik	West Bengal	Cooch Behar	BJP	51,29,810	45,00,000	96,29,810 96 Lacs+	Y

* on assets value indicates that the Ministers have not provided the total in their affidavits, it has been calculated on the basis of details provided by them in the same

Ministers with High Liabilities: A total of 16 Ministers have declared liabilities of Rs. 1 crore and above. Out of these 16 Ministers, 3 have declared liabilities of Rs. 10 crores and above. These Ministers are as given below:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	Disputed liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Narayan Tatu Rane	Maharashtra	Rajya Sabha Member	BJP	87,77,84,105 87 Crore+	# 30,55,81,732 30 Crore+	2,15,49,859 2 Crore+	Y
2	Goyal Piyush Vedprakash	Maharashtra	Rajya Sabha Member	BJP	95,37,86,434 95 Crore+	11,46,63,494 11 Crore+	0	Y
3	Krishan Pal	Haryana	Faridabad	BJP	36,96,52,786 36 Crore+	10,55,93,242 10 Crore+	0	Y

#Disputed liabilities

Other Background Details

Education Details of Ministers: 12(15%) Ministers have declared their educational qualification to be between 8^thand 12^th standard while 64(82%) Ministers have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. 2 Ministers are Diploma holders.

Education Group	Number of Ministers Analyzed
8th Pass	2
10th Pass	3
12th Pass	7
Graduate	17
Graduate Professional	17
Post Graduate	21
Doctorate	9
Diploma	2
Total	78

Age Details of Ministers:22(28%) Ministers have declared their age to be between 31 to 50 years while 56(72%) Ministers have declared their age to be between 51 to 70 years.