Press Release: Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2019 Phase II: Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other Details of Candidates

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Press Release

28th November, 2019

The Jharkhand Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 260 candidates who are contesting in the Jharkhand Assembly Elections Phase II.

For the complete report please go to: https://adrindia.org/content/jharkhand-assembly-elections-2019-%E2%80%93-phase-ii-analysis-criminal-background-financial

Summary and Highlights

Criminal Background

Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of 260 candidates analyzed, 67 (26%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.
Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 44(17%) have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.
Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 4(67%) out of 6 candidates analysed from INC, 7(50%) out of 14 candidates analysed from JMM, 5 (42%) out of 12 candidates analysed from AJSU Party, 8 (40%) out of 20 candidates analysed from BJP and 8 (40%) out of 20 candidates analysed from JVM(P) have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 3(50%) out of 6 candidates analysed from INC, 5(36%) out of 14 candidates analysed from JMM, 5(25%) out of 20 candidates analysed from BJP, 5(25%) out of 20 candidates analysed from JVM(P) and 1(8%) out of 12 candidates analysed from AJSU Party have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
Candidates with declared cases related to crime against women: 4 candidates have declared cases related to crime against women. Out of 4 candidates 1 candidate has declared cases related to rape (IPC Section-376).
Candidates with declared cases related to murder: 4 candidates have declared cases related to murder (IPC Section-302) against themselves.
Candidates with declared cases related to attempt to murder: 8 candidates have declared cases related to Attempt to murder (IPC Section-307) against themselves.
Candidates with declared convicted cases: 3 candidates have declared convicted cases against themselves.

Figure: Party Wise Candidates with Criminal Cases

Red Alert Constituencies*: There are 12 constituencies in the Jharkhand assembly elections, Phase II, 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.

Financial Background

Figure: Share of Wealth among the Contesting Candidates

Share of wealth among candidates: The share of wealth amongst the candidates contesting in the Jharkhand assembly elections phase II is as follows:

Value of assets (Rs.)	Number of candidates	Percentage of Candidates
Rs.5 cr and above	7	3%
Rs.2 crores to Rs. 5 crores	18	7%
Rs. 50 lakhs to Rs. 2 crores	64	24%
Rs.10 lakhs to Rs. 50 lakhs	85	33%
less than Rs. 10 lakhs	86	33%

Table: Share of wealth amongst contesting candidates

Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 260 candidates, 46(18%) are crorepatis.

High asset candidates: The details of top 3 candidates with highest declared assets, contesting in the Jharkhand Assembly Elections Phase II are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Ramdas Soren	EAST SINGHBHUM	GHATSILA (ST)	JMM	69,05,413	8,91,31,000	9,60,36,413 9 Crore+	Y
2	Abhay Singh	EAST SINGHBHUM	JAMSHEDPUR EAST	JVM(P)	37,92,084	8,81,70,063	9,19,62,147 9 Crore+	Y
3	Rezi Dungdung	SIMDEGA	SIMDEGA (ST)	Jharkhand Party	2,18,42,979	6,79,20,000	8,97,62,979 8 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three candidates with highest declared assets

Party wise Crorepati Candidates: Among the major parties 10(50%) out of 20 candidates analysed from BJP, 7(50%) out of 14 candidates analysed from JMM, 2(33%) out of 6 candidates analysed from INC, 3(25%) out of 12 candidates analysed from AJSU Party and 4(20%) out of 20 candidates from JVM(P) have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Crorepati Candidates

Average assets: The average of assets per candidate contesting in the Jharkhand Assembly Elections Phase II is Rs 71.68 Lakhs.
Party wise average assets: Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 6 INC candidates analysed is Rs. 2.26 crores, 14 JMM candidates analysed is Rs 1.78 crore, 20 BJP candidates have average assets of Rs 1.25 crore, 20 JVM(P) candidates have average assets of Rs 1.19 crore and 12 AJSU Party candidates have average assets worth Rs. 1.14 crore.

Low assets candidates: The details of three candidates with lowest assets are as follows:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Madhav Chandra Kunkal	WEST SINGHBHUM	MAJHGAON (ST)	IND	2,000	0	2,000 2 Thou+	Y
2	Pushpa Sinku	WEST SINGHBHUM	CHAIBASA (ST)	IND	7,000	0	7,000 7 Thou+	Y
3	Ajay Honhaga	SARAIKELA KHARSAWAN	KHARSAWAN (ST)	IND	7,382	0	7,382 7 Thou+	Y

Table: Candidates with declared lowest assets

Candidates with high liabilities: 125(48%) candidates have declared liabilities in their affidavits. The details of top three candidates with highest liabilities are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Amit Kumar Singh	EAST SINGHBHUM	GHATSILA (ST)	JD(U)	1,17,45,000 1 Crore+	1,04,00,000 1 Crore+	Y
2	Satyanarayan Gond	SARAIKELA KHARSAWAN	SERAIKELLA (ST)	JD(U)	1,24,61,467 1 Crore+	1,02,59,087 1 Crore+	Y
3	Tarkeshwar Tiwari	EAST SINGHBHUM	JAMSHEDPUR EAST	SHS	5,10,43,875 5 Crore+	90,84,906 90 Lacs+	Y

Table: Top three candidates with highest liabilities

Undeclared PAN: A total of 16(6%) candidates have not declared their PAN details.
Candidates with high income as declared in the ITR*: The details of top 3 candidates who have declared highest income in ITR is as given below:

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Constituency	District	Total Asset (Rs)	Self-Source of Income	Spouse's Source of Income	The financial year for which the last income tax return has been filed by candidate	Total income shown by candidate in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self-income shown by candidate in ITR (Rs)
1	Gourav Vallabh	INC	JAMSHEDPUR EAST	EAST SINGHBHUM	7,48,21,093 7 Crore+	Salary, Board Membership (Sitting Fees & Commission ) and Interest Income	Salary and Interest Income	2018-2019	78,09,160 78 Lacs+	56,04,150 56 Lacs+
2	Nilkanth Singh Munda	BJP	KHUNTI (ST)	KHUNTI	4,37,00,254 4 Crore+	Salary & Agriculture	Business & Agriculture	2018-2019	60,24,016 60 Lacs+	35,38,765 35 Lacs+
3	Rezi Dungdung	Jharkhand Party	SIMDEGA (ST)	SIMDEGA	8,97,62,979 8 Crore+	Pension	Salary	2018-2019	58,65,471 58 Lacs+	41,48,874 41 Lacs+

Table: Top 3 candidates with highest income as declared in ITR

*Some Candidates may be exempted from filing Income tax returns

Candidates who have not declared Income Tax Details*: 15(6%) out of 260 candidates have not declared income tax details.
* Some candidates may be exempted from filing Income Tax Returns

Candidates with high Assets who have not declared Income Tax Details*: 2 candidates with assets worth more than Rs. 50 lakhs have not declared Income Tax details. The details of these 2 candidates with highest assets who have not declared their IT returns are as given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given	Self-Income
1	David Pawan Kerketta	SIMDEGA	KOLEBIRA (ST)	IND	2,05,000	1,00,00,000	1,02,05,000 1 Crore+	N	ITR not filed
2	Mewalal Honhaga	WEST SINGHBHUM	CHAIBASA (ST)	BSP	18,821	86,88,240^*	87,07,061 87 Lacs+	N	ITR not filed

Table: Top 2 candidates with highest assets who have not declared ITR details

* Some candidates may be exempted from filing Income Tax Returns

Other Background Details

Education details of candidates: 125 (48%) candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5^th and 12^thstandard, while 133 (51%) candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. 1 candidate has declared his education just literate and 1 candidate declared his education Illiterate.
Age details of candidates: 104(40%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 to 40 years while 131 (50%) candidates have declared their age to be between 41 to 60 years. There are 22(8%) candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years. 3 candidates have not declared their age.
Gender details of candidates: 29(11%) female candidates are contesting in the Jharkhand assembly election Phase II.