Press Release: Consolidated candidates' report on Criminal Background, Financial and other Details of candidates of Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections, 2022

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4 March, 2022

Dear Friends,

The National Election Watch and Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 6874 out of 6944 candidates who contested in the 5 states assembly elections of Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. 70 candidates were not analysed due to unclear affidavit available on the ECI website at the time of making this report.

Out of 6874 candidates analysed, 1916 are from National parties, 1421 are from State parties, 1829 are from registered unrecognized parties and 1708 candidates are contesting independently.

The full reports in English and Hindi can be accessed here: https://adrindia.org/content/5-states-assembly-elections-2022-analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender-and

State	Total Contesting Candidates	Total Number of Candidates Analysed
Goa	301	301
Manipur	265	265
Punjab	1304	1276
Uttarakhand	632	626
Uttar Pradesh	4442	4406
Total	6944	6874

Summary and Highlights

Party	Total Contesting Candidates	Total Number of Analysed Candidates	candidates with declared Criminal Cases	% of candidates with declared criminal cases	candidates with declared serious criminal cases	% of candidates with declared serious criminal cases	No. of Crorepatis	Percentage of Crorepati Candidates
National Parties	1927	1916	657	34%	467	24%	1372	72%
State Parties	1431	1421	555	39%	413	29%	772	54%
Registered Unrecognized Party	1855	1829	253	14%	200	11%	345	19%
Independent	1731	1708	229	13%	182	11%	347	20%
Total	6944	6874	1694	25%	1262	18%	2836	41%

Table: Party Category Wise Details

Criminal Background

Candidates with Criminal cases: Out of 6874 candidates analysed, 1694 (25%) have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Candidates with serious criminal cases: 1262 (18 %) candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

Candidates with declared cases related to murder: 44 candidates have declared cases related to murder (IPC Section-302) against themselves.

Candidates with declared cases related to attempt to murder: 209 candidates have declared cases related to Attempt to murder (IPC Section-307) against themselves.

Candidates with declared cases related to crime against women: 107 candidates have declared cases related to crime against women. Out of 107 candidates 16 candidates have declared cases related to rape (IPC Section-376, 376D & 376(2) (n)).

The directions of the Supreme Court have had no effect on the political parties in selection of candidates in the 5 States Assembly Elections 2022 as they have again followed their old practice of giving tickets to candidates with criminal cases. All major parties contesting in the 5 States assembly elections 2022 have given tickets to candidates who have declared criminal cases against themselves, as follows:

(a) Uttar Pradesh 18 % to 65 %

(b) Uttarakhand 17 % to 33 %

(d) Manipur 13 % to 29 %

(e) Punjab 11 % to 68 %

The Supreme Court in its directions dated 13th February, 2020 had specifically instructed political parties to give reasons for such selection and why other individuals without criminal antecedents could not be selected as candidates. As per these mandatory guidelines, the reasons for such selection has to be with reference to qualifications, achievements and merit of the candidate concerned and not only based on the winnability factor. During the recent 6 State Assembly elections held in 2020-21, it was observed that political parties gave unfounded and baseless reasons like popularity of the person, does good social work, cases are politically motivated etc. These are not sound and cogent reasons for fielding candidates with tainted backgrounds. This data clearly shows that political parties have no interest in reforming the electoral system and our democracy will continue to suffer at the hands of lawbreakers who become lawmakers.

State wise candidates with self-declared criminal cases

Figure: State wise Percentage of candidates with criminal cases

S.No.	State	Total Number of Candidates Analysed	Number of Candidates with Declared Criminal Cases	% of candidates with declared criminal cases	Number of Candidates with Declared Serious Criminal Cases	% of candidates with declared serious criminal cases
1	Goa	301	77	26%	53	18%
2	Manipur	265	53	20%	41	15%
3	Punjab	1276	315	25%	218	17%
4	Uttarakhand	626	107	17%	61	10%
5	Uttar Pradesh	4406	1142	26%	889	20%
Total		6874	1694	25%	1262	18%

Table: State wise candidates with criminal cases

State wise number of candidates with declared cases related to

Murder, attempt to murder and crime against women

S.No.	State	No. of Candidates with declared cases related to murder	No. of Candidates with declared cases related to attempt to murder	No. of Candidates with declared cases related to crime against women
1	Goa	0	7	12
2	Manipur	2	7	5
3	Punjab	4	33	15
4	Uttarakhand	1	3	6
5	Uttar Pradesh	37	159	69
Total		44	209	107

Table: State wise number of candidates with declared cases related to murder, attempt to murder and crime against women

Figure: State wise number of candidates with declared cases related to murder, attempt to murder and crime against women

Party wise candidates with self-declared criminal cases

Figure: Party wise Percentage of candidates with criminal cases

Party Name	Total number of candidates analyzed	candidates with declared Criminal Cases	% of candidates with declared criminal cases	candidates with declared serious criminal cases	% of candidates with declared serious criminal cases
Independent	1708	229	13%	182	11%
INC	674	228	34%	149	22%
BJP	615	232	38%	172	28%
AAP	570	144	25%	90	16%
BSP	473	166	35%	128	27%
SP	417	234	56%	171	41%
SAD	96	65	68%	60	63%
UKD	42	7	17%	4	10%
NPP	38	5	13%	3	8%
RLD	37	19	51%	17	46%
Punjab Lok Congress Party	27	3	11%	2	7%
AITC	26	6	23%	4	15%
Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party	19	11	58%	11	58%
Apna Dal (Soneylal)	17	6	35%	4	24%
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak	13	6	46%	3	23%
NPF	10	0	0%	0	0%
Goa Forward Party	3	1	33%	0	0%
Others	2089	332	16%	262	13%
Total	6874	1694	25%	1262	18%

Table: Party wise candidates with criminal cases

State Wise Red Alert Constituencies*: There are 313(45%) out of 690 constituencies having 3 or more candidates with declared criminal cases.

*Red Alert Constituencies are those which have 3 or more candidates with criminal cases contesting elections.

S.No	State	Number of Constituency	Number of Red Alert Constituencies	Percentage of Red Alert Constituencies
1	Goa	40	12	30%
2	Manipur	60	5	8%
3	Punjab	117	57	49%
4	Uttarakhand	70	13	19%
5	Uttar Pradesh	403	226	56%
Total		690	313	45%

Table: State Wise Red Alert Constituencies

Financial Background

Crorepati Candidates: Out of 6874 candidates analysed, 2836(41%) are crorepati.

Figure: State Wise Percentage of Crorepati Candidates

S.No.	State	Total number of Candidates Analysed	Number of Crorepati Candidates	Percentage of Crorepati candidates
1	Goa	301	187	62%
2	Manipur	265	143	54%
3	Punjab	1276	521	41%
4	Uttarakhand	626	252	40%
5	Uttar Pradesh	4406	1733	39%
Total		6874	2836	41%

Table: State Wise Crorepati Candidates

Party wise Crorepati Candidates

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Crorepati Candidates

Party Name	Total number of candidates analyzed	Number of Crorepati Candidates	Percentage of Crorepati candidates
Independent	1708	347	20%
INC	674	423	63%
BJP	615	534	87%
AAP	570	248	44%
BSP	473	349	74%
SP	417	312	75%
SAD	96	89	93%
UKD	42	12	29%
NPP	38	27	71%
RLD	37	32	86%
Punjab Lok Congress Party	27	16	59%
AITC	26	17	65%
Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party	19	13	68%
Apna Dal (Soneylal)	17	12	71%
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak	13	9	69%
NPF	10	8	80%
Goa Forward Party	3	2	67%
Others	2089	386	18%
Total	6874	2836	41%

Table: Party wise Crorepati candidates

Average assets: The average of assets per candidate contesting is Rs 3.27 Crores.

Figure: State Wise Average Assets of Candidates

S.No.	State	Total number of Candidates Analysed	Average Assets (Rs)
1	Goa	301	Rs 6,48,71,079 6 Crore+
2	Manipur	265	Rs 2,55,00,386 2 Crore+
3	Punjab	1276	Rs 4,31,89,176 4 Crore+
4	Uttarakhand	626	Rs 2,74,62,516 2 Crore+
5	Uttar Pradesh	4406	Rs 2,87,17,557 2 Crore+
Total		6874	Rs 3,27,48,658 3 Crore+

Table: State Wise Average Assets Candidates

Other Background Details

Overall Educational Details: 2684(39%) candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5^th to 12^th pass, while 3636(53%) candidates are graduates or have higher degrees. 108 candidates are Diploma holders. 303 candidates have declared themselves to be just literate and 106 candidates are Illiterates. 37 candidates have not given their educational qualification.

Overall Age Details: 2195(32%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 to 40 years while 3694 (54%) candidates have declared their age to be between 41 to 60 years. There are 975(14%) candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years and 10 candidates have declared they are more than 80 years old.

Overall Gender Details: Out of 6874 candidates, 6116 are men whereas 755(11%) are women. 3 are third gender.

Contact Details

Uttar Pradesh Election Watch
Mr. Sanjay Singh Coordinator +91-94151-14151 sanjays...@gmail.com	Dr Lenin Coordinator +91-99355-99333 +91-99355-99330 le...@pvchr.asia	Mr.Anil Sharma Coordinator +91-9794497744 anilshar...@gmail.com, anilsharma21@@gmail.com	Mr. Mahesh Anand Coordinator +91-94152-33694 +91-99367-47774 gramswar...@gmail.com