Press Release : Karnataka Assembly Elections 2023 : Bengaluru Region: Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other Details of Candidates

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Press Release

7th May, 2023

Dear Friends,

The Karnataka Election Watch, Bengaluru Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 384 out of 389 candidates, who are contesting in the following 28 constituencies of Bengaluru region in the Karnataka 2023 Assembly elections.

The full report in English can be accessed here: https://adrindia.org/content/analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender-and-other-details-candidates-21

S.No.	Constituency	Number of Candidates Analysed	Total Contesting Candidates
1	Anekal (Sc)	11	11
2	B.T.M Layout	12	12
3	Bangalore South	14	14
4	Basavanagudi	12	12
5	Bommanahalli	14	14
6	Byatarayanapura	17	17
7	C.V. Ramannnagar (Sc)	10	10
8	Chamrajapet	12	12
9	Chickpet	15	15
10	Dasarahalli	15	15
11	Gandhinagar	15	15
12	Govindarajanagar	14	14
13	Hebbal	14	14
14	Jayanagar	15	15
15	K.R. Pura	11	12
16	Mahadevapura (Sc)	15	15
17	Mahalakshmi Layout	12	12
18	Malleshwaram	11	11
19	Padmanabanagar	13	13
20	Pulakeshinagar (Sc)	15	15
21	Rajajinagar	18	18
22	Rajarajeshwarinagar	14	14
23	Sarvagnanagar	14	15
24	Shantinagar	10	10
25	Shivajinagar	14	15
26	Vijayanagar	15	15
27	Yelahanka	18	20
28	Yeshwanthapura	14	14
Total		384	389

Table: Constituency Wise Number of Contesting Candidates

Summary and Highlights

Criminal Background

Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of 384 candidates analyzed, 92 (24%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.

Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 57 (15%) have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Candidates with Criminal Cases

Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases: Among the major parties,14(50%) out of 28 candidates analysed from BJP, 19(70%) out of 27 candidates analysed from INC, 9 (38%) out of 24 candidates analysed from JD(S) and 9 (32%) out of 28 candidates analysed from AAP have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: Among the major parties,9(32%) out of 28 candidates analysed from BJP, 10(37%) out of 27 candidates analysed from INC, 8 (33%) out of 24 candidates analysed from JD(S) and 1 (4%) out of 28 candidates analysed from AAP have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Candidates with declared cases related to crime against women: 5 candidates have declared cases related to crime against women.

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: 9 candidates have declared cases related to Attempt to murder (IPC Section-307) against themselves.

Financial Background

Figure: Share of Wealth among the Contesting Candidates

Share of wealth among candidates: The share of wealth amongst the candidates who are contesting in the 28 constituencies of Bengaluru region in the Karnataka 2023 Assembly elections is as follows:

Value of assets (Rs.)	Number of candidates	Percentage of Candidates
5 cr and above	87	23%
2 crores to 5 crores	37	10%
50 lakhs to 2 crores	76	20%
10 lakhs to 50 lakhs	70	18%
less than 10 lakhs	114	29%

Table: Share of wealth amongst contesting candidates

Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 384 candidates, 157(41%) are crorepatis.

Party wise Crorepati Candidates: The role of money power in our elections is evident from the fact that all major political parties give tickets to wealthy candidates. Among the major parties 26(96%) out of 27 candidates analysed from INC, 27(96%) out of 28 candidates analysed from BJP, 21(88%) out of 24 candidates analysed from JD(S) and 25(89%) out of 28 candidates analysed from AAP have declared assets valued more than Rs 1 crore.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Crorepati Candidates

Average assets: The average of assets per candidate contesting in the 28 constituencies of Bengaluru region in the Karnataka 2023 Assembly elections is Rs 24.48 Crore.
Party wise average assets: Among major parties, the average assets for 27 INC candidates analysed is Rs. 145.26 Crores, 28 BJP candidates analysed Rs 63 Crores, 24 JD(S) candidates have average assets of Rs 54.97 Crores and 28 AAP have average assets worth Rs 10.37 Crores.
High asset candidates: The details of top 3 candidates with highest declared assets, contesting in the 28 constituencies of Bengaluru region in the Karnataka 2023 Assembly elections are given below:

S.No.	Name	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Yousuf Shariff	Chickpet	IND	85,69,24,388	15,47,97,11,050	16,33,66,35,438 1633 Crore+	Y
2	Priyakrishna	Govindarajanagar	INC	9,35,00,93,089	2,21,83,00,000	11,56,83,93,089 1156 Crore+	Y
3	Suresha B S	Hebbal	INC	64,09,44,854	5,84,05,50,000	6,48,14,94,854 648 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three candidates with highest declared assets

Zero assets candidates: There are 3 candidates who have declared zero assets. The details of these candidates are given below:

S.No.	Name	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Bhagya N	Yelahanka	IND	0	0	0	N
2	Jameel Ahmed	Shivajinagar	IND	0	0	0	Y
3	Anjan Kumar Gowda S	Hebbal	Indian New Congress Party	0	0	0	Y

Table: Candidates with declared zero assets

Low assets candidates: The details of three candidates with lowest assets (excluding zero assets candidates) are given below:

S.No.	Name	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Kalid Khan	Byatarayanapura	IND	1,019	0	1,019 1 Thou+	Y
2	M P Nanjesh Kumar	Jayanagar	IND	5,000	0	5,000 5 Thou+	Y
3	Krs Janani Vathsala	B.T.M Layout	Karnataka Rashtra Samithi	7,500	0	7,500 7 Thou+	Y

Table: Candidates with declared lowest assets

Candidates with high liabilities: 212 (55%) candidates have declared liabilities in their affidavits. The details of top three candidates with highest liabilities are given below:

S.No.	Name	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	Disputed liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Priyakrishna	Govindarajanagar	INC	11,56,83,93,089 1156 Crore+	# 8,81,99,38,805 881 Crore+	65,15,25,282 65 Crore+	Y
2	K. Narayan Raju	Bommanahalli	JD(S)	4,16,79,75,837 416 Crore+	# 1,25,38,78,609 125 Crore+	15,25,43,837 15 Crore+	Y
3	Suresha B S	Hebbal	INC	6,48,14,94,854 648 Crore+	1,14,86,74,690 114 Crore+	0	Y

Table: Top three candidates with highest liabilities

# Disputed liabilities

Candidates with high income as declared in the ITR*: The details of top 3 candidates with high income declared in ITR are given below:

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Constituency	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	Yousuf Shariff	IND	Chickpet	16,33,66,35,438 1633 Crore+	Business	NA	2022-2023	46,19,71,670 46 Crore+	46,19,71,670 46 Crore+
2	K. Narayan Raju	JD(S)	Bommanahalli	4,16,79,75,837 416 Crore+	Business Income and Rental Income	Business Income and Rental Income	2021-2022	22,06,93,200 22 Crore+	1,10,930 1 Lacs+
3	K. Gopalaiah	BJP	Mahalakshmi Layout	1,10,64,58,434 110 Crore+	MLA Salary ,Agriculture and rental income	Farming and Rental Income	2021-2022	6,91,18,178 6 Crore+	3,47,12,186 3 Crore+

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

Undeclared PAN: A total of 2(1%) candidates have not declared their PAN details.

Other Background Details

Education details of candidates: 213(55%) candidates have declared their educational qualifications to be between 5^th and 12^thstandard while 145(38%) candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. 19 candidates are Diploma holders. 3 candidates have declared themselves to be just literate and 3 candidates are Illiterates. 1 candidate has not given his educational qualification.

Age details of candidates: 117(30%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 to 40 years while 220 (57%) candidates have declared their age to be between 41 to 60 years. There are 46 (12%) candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years and 1 candidate has declared his age as 82 years.

Gender details of candidates: 38(10%) female candidates are contesting in the 28 constituencies of Bengaluru region in the Karnataka 2023 Assembly elections.

Contact Details

Karnataka Election Watch

Prof Trilochan Sastry

IIM Bangalore

Founder Member,

National Election Watch,

Association for Democratic Reforms

+91 94483 53285

tsa...@gmail.com

Mr. Harish Narasappa

State Co-ordinator
har...@dakshindia.org

Ms. Kathyayini Chamaraj