Press Release: Tripura Assembly Elections 2023: Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and Other Details of Winning Candidates

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Press Release

Date: March 3, 2023

Dear Friends,

Tripura Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 60 winning candidates in the Tripura 2023 Assembly Elections.

For the complete English and Hindi reports, please go to: https://adrindia.org/content/analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender-and-other-details-winning-5

Summary and Highlights

Figure: Final Party Position

Criminal Background

Winning candidates with criminal cases: Out of the 60 winning candidates analysed in 2023, 16(27%) winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Out of 59 MLAs analysed during Tripura Assembly elections in 2018, 12(20%) MLAs had declared criminal cases against themselves.

Winning candidates with serious criminal cases: 9 (15%) winning candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves. Out of 59 MLAs analysed during Tripura Assembly elections in 2018, 10 (17%) MLAs had declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

Figure: Comparison of declared criminal cases of MLAs of 2018 vs Winning candidate 2023

Winning candidates with cases related Attempt to Murder: 3 winning candidates have declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC Section-307) against themselves.

Party wise Winning candidates with Criminal Cases: 5 (16%) out of 32 winning candidates from BJP, 3(23%) out of 13 winning candidates from Tipra Motha Party, 5(46%) out of 11 winning candidates from CPI(M) and 3(100%) out of 3 INC winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Party wise Winning candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 3 (9%) out of 32 winning candidates from BJP, 3(23%) out of 13 winning candidates from Tipra Motha Party, 2(18%) out of 11 winning candidates from CPI(M) and 1(33%) out of 3 INC winning candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

Figure: Party Wise Percentage of Winning Candidates with Criminal Cases

Financial Background

Crorepati Winning candidates: Out of the 60 winning candidates analysed, 21 (35%) are crorepatis. Out of 59 MLAs analysed during Tripura assembly elections 2018, 15 (25%) MLAs were crorepatis.

Figure: Percentage of Crorepati MLAs 2018 and Winning Candidates 2023

Party-wise crorepati winning candidates:10 (31%) out of 32 from BJP, 4(36%) out of 11 from CPI(M), 4 (31%) out of 13 from Tipra Motha Party and 3 (100%) out of 3 from INC winning candidates have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.

Figure: Party wise Percentage of Crorepati Winning Candidates

Figure: Share of Wealth Among Winning Candidates

Average assets: The average of assets per winning candidates in the Tripura Assembly Elections 2023 is Rs 1.52 Crores. The average of assets per MLA in the Tripura Assembly Elections 2018 was Rs 92.06 lakhs.

Figure: Comparison of Average Assets (Rs. in Crores) 2018 vs 2023

Party wise average assets: The average assets per winning candidate for 32 BJP winning candidates is Rs 1.89 Crores, 13 Tipra Motha Party winning candidates is Rs 60.92 Lakhs, 11 CPI(M) winning candidates is Rs 80.11 Lakhs, 3 INC winning candidates is Rs 4.79 Crores and 1 Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura winner candidate has assets worth Rs 2.06 Lakhs.

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

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Manik Saha	West Tripura	Town Bardowali	BJP	1,10,29,020	12,80,00,000	13,90,29,020 13 Crore+	Y
2	Biswa Bandhu Sen	North Tripura	Dharmanagar	BJP	1,73,17,521	8,00,00,000	9,73,17,521 9 Crore+	Y
3	Sudip Roy Barman	West Tripura	Agartala	INC	2,85,46,072^*	6,22,45,000^*	9,07,91,072 9 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three winning candidates with highest declared assets

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

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Nandita Debbarma(Reang)	Dhalai	Raima Valley (ST)	Tipra Motha Party	63,000	0	63,000 63 Thou+	Y
2	Antara Sarkar Deb	Sepahijala	Kamalasagar	BJP	73,647	0	73,647 73 Thou+	Y
3	Swapna Majumder	South Tripura	Rajnagar (SC)	BJP	1,44,443	0	1,44,443 1 Lacs+	Y

Table: Three winning candidates with lowest declared assets

Winning candidates with high liabilities: 17 winning candidates have declared liabilities of Rs 20 lakhs and above, and the details of the top 3 winning candidates are as follows:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Bhagaban Chandra Das	Unakoti	Pabiachara (SC)	BJP	98,60,757 98 Lacs+	53,18,810 53 Lacs+	Y
2	Tinku Roy	Unakoti	Chandipur	BJP	4,36,82,067 4 Crore+	50,67,164 50 Lacs+	Y
3	Abhishek Debroy	Gomati	Matarbari	BJP	56,24,268 56 Lacs+	50,27,395^* 50 Lacs+	Y

Table: Top three winning candidates with high liabilities

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

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 winning candidate	Total income shown by winning candidate in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self-income shown by winning candidate in ITR (Rs)
1	Pranajit Singha Roy	BJP	Radhakishorpur	Gomati	7,32,92,599 7 Crore+	Business	Business	2021-2022	58,66,710 58 Lacs+	42,75,920 42 Lacs+
2	Biswa Bandhu Sen	BJP	Dharmanagar	North Tripura	9,73,17,521 9 Crore+	Rental Income and Hotel Business	Pension From Govt. of Tripura	2021-2022	26,04,270 26 Lacs+	18,01,350 18 Lacs+
3	Manik Saha	BJP	Town Bardowali	West Tripura	13,90,29,020 13 Crore+	Professor of Tripura Medical College as Dental Surgeon & Private Practice	Business through X-Ray Machine	2021-2022	25,46,068 25 Lacs+	19,66,780 19 Lacs+

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

*Total income includes income of self, spouse and dependents

Other Background Details

Education Details of winning candidates: 26 (43%) winning candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 8^th pass and 12^th pass, while 33 (55%) winning candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate and above. 1 winner candidate is Diploma holder.

Age details of winning candidates: 29 (48%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 25 and 50 years while 31 (52%) winning candidates have declared their age to be between 51 and 80.

Gender details of winning candidates: Out of 60 winning candidates analysed, 9(15%) winning candidates are women. In 2018, out of 59 MLAs, 3 (5%) MLAs were women.