Press Release: Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other details of Sitting MLCs in Uttar Pradesh, 2022

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Press Release

Date: 25 July, 2022

Dear Friends,

Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Uttar Pradesh Election Watch have analyzed the criminal, financial and other background details of 81 out of 100 sitting MLCs. In the current Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council 2 seats are vacant. 7 MLCs have not been analysed as their affidavits were unavailable. The 10 Nominated MLCs are not required to submit their affidavits, hence their information on criminal, financial and other details are not available in the public domain.

For the complete report in Hindi and English, please go to: https://adrindia.org/content/analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender-and-other-details-sitting-mlcs-uttar

Summary and Highlights

Criminal Background

MLCs with criminal cases: Out of the 81 MLCs analysed, 26(32%) MLCs have declared criminal cases against themselves.

MLCs with serious criminal cases: 15(19%) MLCs have declared serious criminal cases.

MLCs with declared cases related to murder: 3 MLCs have declared cases related to murder (IPC section 302).

MLCs with declared cases related to attempt to murder: 4 MLCs have declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC Section 307).

Party wise MLCs with criminal cases: 22(33%) out of 66 MLCs from BJP, 3 (43%) out of 7 MLCs from SP and 1(17%) out of the 6 Independent MLCs have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party wise MLCs with serious criminal cases: 13(20%) out of 66 MLCs from BJP and 2 (29%) out of 7 MLCs from SP have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Figure: Party wise percentage of MLCs with declared criminal cases

Financial Background

Crorepati MLCs: Out of the 81 sitting MLCs analysed, 66 (81%) are crorepatis.

Partywise crorepati MLCs: Among major parties, 54 (82%)out of 66 MLCs from BJP, 6 (86%) out of 7 MLCs from SP, 1(100%) out of 1 MLCs from Apna Dal (Sonelal) and 5(83%)out of the 6 Independent MLCs have declared assets valued more than Rs 1 crore.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Crorepati MLCs

Average assets:The average of assets per MLC is Rs. 11.72 crores.

Party wise average assets: Among the major parties, the average assets per MLC for 66 BJP MLCs analysed is Rs 13.18 crores, 7 SP MLCs have average assets of Rs 2.84 crores , 1 Apna Dal (Sonelal) MLC has average assets worth Rs. 2.60 crores, 1 BSP MLC has average assets worth Rs. 40.03 lakhs and 6 Independent MLCs have average assets of Rs. 9.35 crores.

High asset MLCs: The top three MLCs with high assets are given below:

S.No.	Name	Members	Term (From, To)/ Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Dinesh Kumar Goel	Elected From Graduates Constituency	(Dec-2020, Dec-2026) Meerut	BJP	79,27,16,608	97,82,63,397	1,77,09,80,005 177 Crore+	Y
2	Vandana Mudit Verma	Local Authorities	(12-Apr-2022, 11-Apr-2028) Muzaffarnagar- Saharanpur	BJP	2,02,89,651	1,01,80,47,380	1,03,83,37,031 103 Crore+	Y
3	CP Chand	Local Authorities	(12-Apr-2022, 11-Apr-2028) Gorakhpur-Maharajganj	BJP	6,19,62,000	94,64,20,000	1,00,83,82,000 100 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three MLCs with highest declared assets

Low asset MLCs: The details of three MLCs with the lowest assets are given below:

S.No.	Name	Members	Term (From, To)/ Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Anoop Kumar Gupta	Local Authorities	(12-Apr-2022, 11-Apr-2028) Lakhimpur–Kheri	BJP	6,69,854	0	6,69,854 6 Lacs+	Y
2	Dhruv Kumar Tripathi	Elected From Teachers Constituency	(Dec-2020, Dec-2026) Gorakhpur Faizabad	IND	10,45,155	0	10,45,155 10 Lacs+	Y
3	Mohd Danish	Elected From UP Legislative Assembly	(06-Jul-2022, 05-Jul-2028)	BJP	15,95,925	0	15,95,925 15 Lacs+	Y

Table: Three MLCs with lowest declared assets

MLCs with high liabilities: 54(67%) MLCs have declared liabilities, and the details of the top 3 MLCs with highest declared liabilities are as follows:

S.No.	Name	Members	Term (From, To)/ Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Dinesh Kumar Goel	Elected From Graduates Constituency	(Dec-2020, Dec-2026) Meerut	BJP	1,77,09,80,005 177 Crore+	39,58,14,402 39 Crore+	Y
2	Ram Chandra Pradhan	Local Authorities	(12-Apr-2022, 11-Apr-2028) Lucknow-Unnao	BJP	35,28,08,350 35 Crore+	14,04,00,000 14 Crore+	Y
3	Vagish Pathak	Local Authorities	(12-Apr-2022, 11-Apr-2028) Budaun	BJP	26,13,38,913 26 Crore+	5,49,64,047 5 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three MLCs with high liabilities

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

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Term (From, To)/ Constituency	Members	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 MLC	Total income shown by MLC in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self income shown by MLC in ITR (Rs)
1	Vishal Singh Chanchal	BJP	(12-Apr-2022, 11-Apr-2028) Ghazipur	Local Authorities	52,01,14,632 52 Crore+	Salary as Member of Legislative Council, Profit as Managing Director, Profit & Salary as Partner	Profit as Managing Director, Profit & Salary as Partner, Income from Petrol Pump	2021-2022	2,85,13,540 2 Crore+	81,45,790 81 Lacs+
2	Pragya Tripathi	BJP	(12-Apr-2022, 11-Apr-2028) Bahraich	Local Authorities	12,71,56,649 12 Crore+	Private Doctor	Doctor	2021-2022	2,36,44,780 2 Crore+	1,11,60,860 1 Crore+
3	Dinesh Kumar Goel	BJP	(Dec-2020, Dec-2026) Meerut	Elected From Graduates Constituency	1,77,09,80,005 177 Crore+	Rent, Interest, Property Dealer	Rent, Interest, Property Dealer	2018-2019	2,04,46,321 2 Crore+	80,80,634 80 Lacs+

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

*Total income includes income of self, spouse and dependents

Other Background details

Education Details of MLCs: 13 (16%) MLCs have declared their educational qualification to be between 8^th pass and 12^th pass while 66 (81%) MLCs have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above and 1 MLC is just Literate.

Age details of MLCs: 8 (10%) MLCs have declared their age to be between 31 and 40 years while 53 (65%) MLCs have declared their age to be between 41 and 60 years.There are 20(25%) MLCs who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years.