Phase 8: Lok Sabha Elections 2014

Analysis of Criminal Background, Financial, Education, Gender and other details of Candidates

National Election Watch (NEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 890 candidates out of 897 candidates who are contesting in the Phase 8 of Lok Sabha 2014 Elections. The rest of the candidates were not analysed due to unclear/incomplete affidavits uploaded on the ECI website at the time of making of this report. 

Please find the following reports attached with the mail;

1. Analysis of criminal, financial and other background details of candidates contesting in Phase 8 of Lok Sabha elections 2014
2. Consolidated analysis of criminal, financial and other background details of candidates from Phase 1 to Phase 8 Lok Sabha elections 2014

Phase 8
S.No.	State	No. of Candidates Constesting	No. of Candidates analysed	Constituencies	No. of Candidates with Criminal Cases	% of Candidates with Criminal Cases	No. of Crorepati Candidates	% of Crorepati Candidates	Date of Poll
1	Andhra Pradesh	333	328	25	57	17%	112	34%	7thMay, 2014
2	Bihar	118	118	7	37	31%	36	31%
3	Himachal Pradesh	38	38	4	9	24%	14	37%
4	Jammu and Kashmir	19	19	2	0	0%	8	42%
5	Uttar Pradesh	243	241	15	52	22%	72	30%
6	West Bengal	72	72	6	15	21%	6	8%
7	Uttarakhand	74	74	5	7	9%	24	32%
Total		897	890	64	177	20%	272	31%

​Criminal Background

• Candidates with Criminal Cases:Out of the 890 candidates analysed, 177 (20%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves

• Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases:125 (14%) candidates have declared serious criminal cases including cases related to murder, attempt to murder, communal disharmony, electoral violations, crimes against women 

• Candidates with cases related to murder: 9 candidates have declared cases related to murder.

• Candidates with cases related to Attempt to Murder: 32 candidates have declared cases of attempt to murder.

• Candidate with rape charges: Pawan Pandey of BSP from Sultanpur constituency has declared rape charges against himself.

• Candidates with cases related to Crimes against Women: 8 candidates have declared cases related to crimes against women.

• Candidates with cases related to Communal Disharmony: 5 candidates have declared cases related to Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony (IPC section-153A). 1 candidate has declared a case related to Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings or any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs (IPC section-295A) and 2 candidates have declared cases related to Injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class (IPC section-295). *A candidate may have declared more than one IPC related to communal disharmony.

• Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases:13 (22%) out of 58 candidates from INC, 14 (35%) out of 40 candidates from BJP, 10 (23%)out of 43 candidates from AAP, 21 (35%) out of 60 candidates fielded by BSP and 26 (9%) out of 292 Independent candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits

• Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 10 (17%) out of 58 candidates from INC, 11 (28%) out of 40 candidates from BJP, 6 (14%) out of 43 candidates from AAP, 16 (27%) out of 60 candidates fielded by BSP and 15 (5%) out of 292 Independent candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

• Red Alert Constituencies: 34 constituencies have at least 3 candidates with declared criminal cases. Muzaffarpur constituency, Biharhas the highest number of contesting candidates i.e. 7 with criminal cases against them.

Financial Background

• Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 890 candidates analysed, 272 (31%) are crorepatis.

• Party-wise Crorepati Candidates: 44 (76%) out of 58 candidates in INC, 28 (70%) out of 40 candidates in BJP, 19 (44%) out of 43 candidates in AAP, 22 (37%) out of 60 candidates in BSP and 41 (14%) out of 292 Independent candidates have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.

• Average Assets: The average assets per candidate contesting in the 8th phase of Lok Sabha 2014 elections is Rs.5.90 crores.

• Party-wise Average Assets: Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 58 INC candidates is Rs 12.91 crores, 40 BJPcandidates have average assets of Rs.17.32 crores, 43 AAP candidates have average assets worth of Rs.1.74 crores and 60 BSPcandidates have average assets of Rs. 2.61 crores.

• Party-wise Asset Rank: 43 (74%) out of 58 INC candidates occupy the top three highest assets positions amongst all the contesting candidates in their respective constituencies. Similarly, 22 (55%) out of 40 BJP candidates, 16 (27%) out of 60 BSP candidates and 7 (16%)out of 43 AAP candidates occupy the top three highest assets positions in their constituency.

Note: The following graph analyses the number of candidates fielded by political parties who have declared either the highest total assets in their constituency (among the candidates analysed for the constituency), or the second highest or the third highest. 

•  High Asset Candidates*: 16 candidates have declared more than Rs.50 crores worth of assets. The top three candidates with highest assets are given below:
  
  *Total Assets includes income of self, spouse and dependents.

  S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
  1	Jayadev Galla	Andhra Pradesh	Guntur	TDP	5,92,12,78,671	90,93,02,690	6,83,05,81,361  683 Crore+	Y
  2	Ayodhya Rami Reddy Alla	Andhra Pradesh	Narasaraopet	YSRCP	6,48,70,29,756	5,63,52,000	6,54,33,81,756  654 Crore+	Y
  3	Gokaraju Ganga Raju	Andhra Pradesh	Narsapuram	BJP	2,21,78,33,670	66,57,33,452	2,88,35,67,122  288 Crore+	Y

• Low Asset Candidates: A total of 44 candidates have declared assets less than Rs. 50 thousand (excluding candidates who have declared zero assets). The three candidates with lowest assets are as follows:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Malyadri Ravulakollu	Andhra Pradesh	Nellore	IND	500  5 Hund+	N
2	Rajib Mudi	West Bengal	Jhargram	SUCI(C)	650  6 Hund+	Y
3	Ashish Kumar	Himachal Pradesh	Hamirpur	IND	900  9 Hund+	N

• Candidates with High Liabilities: A total of 47 candidates have declared liabilities of more than Rs. 1 crore. Out of these 47 candidates, 12 have declared liabilities of Rs. 10 crore and above.

• Crorepati Candidates with no PAN: 17 candidates with total assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore have declared no PAN details.

• Candidates with High Income*:24 candidates have declared total annual income of more than Rs. 1 crore. The top three candidates with highest declared annual income are given below:
  Total income includes income of self, spouse and dependents

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Constituency	Total Assets	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)	Self income shown by candidate in ITR
1	Jayadev Galla	TDP	Guntur	6,83,05,81,361 683 Crore+	2012-2013	16,85,54,700 16 Crore+	16,30,91,770 16 Crore+
2	Saket Bahuguna	INC	Tehri Garhwal	22,57,29,228 22 Crore+	2012-2013	10,06,09,119 10 Crore+	9,82,77,256 9 Crore+
3	Yarram Venkata Subbareddy	YSRCP	Ongole	73,54,51,548 73 Crore+	2012-2013	5,41,12,840 5 Crore+	5,40,91,340 5 Crore+

• Candidates who have not declared Income Tax Details*: 483 (54%) candidates out of 890 analyzed 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: 37 candidates with assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore, have not declared Income Tax Details.

*Sonam Kinnar an Independent candidate from Amethi Constituency has declared to be from the third gender

Consolidated Analysis of Criminal Background and Financial details of Candidates

Phase 1 to Phase 8

National Election Watch (NEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 7562 candidates out of 7624 candidates who have contested/contesting in Phase 1 to Phase 8 of Lok Sabha 2014 Elections. The rest of the candidates were not analysed due to unclear/incomplete affidavits available on the ECI website at the time of making this report. The following is a consolidated summary of the same.

Phase	No. of contesting candidates	No. of Candidates analysed	No. of Constituencies	No. of Candidates with Criminal Cases	% of Candidates with Criminal Cases	No. of Crorepati Candidates	% of Crorepati Candidates	Average Assets	Date of Poll (2014)
1	64	64	6	6	9%	16	25%	Rs.5.75 crores	7thApril
2	37	37	7	1	3%	23	62%	Rs.9.12 crores	9thApril

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