Analysis of Criminal Background-Phase 4: Lok Sabha Elections 2014

3 04 2014

 

Posted on April 3, 2014

Phase 4: 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 all 74 candidates who arecontesting in the Phase 4 of Lok Sabha 2014 Elections.
You can find the following reports in English, attached with the mail:

• Analysis of Criminal, Financial and Other Background Details of Candidates Contesting in Phase 4 of Lok Sabha 2014 Elections
• Consolidated Analysis of Criminal, Financial and Other Background Details of Candidates Contesting from Phase 1 to Phase 4 of Lok Sabha 2014 Elections

​For full list of candidates with criminal cases from Phase 1 to Phase 4 Click Here​

Phase 4
S.No.	State	No. of Candidates contesting	Constituencies	No. of Candidates with Criminal Cases	% of Candidates with Criminal Cases	No. of Crorepati Candidates	% of Crorepati Candidates	Date of Poll
1	Assam	37	3	3	8%	6	16%	12th April, 2014
2	Tripura	12	1	0	0%	3	25%
3	Goa	19	2	6	32%	7	37%
4	Sikkim	6	1	0	0%	4	67%
Total		74	7	9	12%	20	27%

​​Criminal Background

• Candidates with Criminal Cases:Out of the 74 candidates, 9 candidates (12%) have declared criminal cases against themselves
  
• Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases:Out of these 9 candidates, 5 candidates have declared serious criminal cases including cases related to voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons, criminal intimidation etc​.
• ​Candidates with multiple serious IPC counts: 4 candidates have declared multiple serious IPC counts. Dayanand G. Narvekar an Independent candidates from North Goa Constituency has declared 4 serious IPC counts followed by Govind Gaude an Independent candidate from South Goa constituency with 3 serious IPC counts, Churchill Alemao of AITC from South Goa constituency with 3 serious IPC counts and Lalit Mohon Suklabaidya of INC Karimganj constituency with 2 serious IPC counts.  
• ​​ State-wise break up of candidates with declared criminal cases:

State	Total number of Candidates analyzed	Candidates with declared criminal cases	% of candidates with declared criminal cases	candidates with serious declared criminal cases	% of candidates with serious declared criminal cases
Assam	37	3	8%	2	5%
Goa	19	6	32%	3	16%
Others	18	0	0%	0	0%
Total	74	9	12%	5	7%

• Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases:2 (29%)out of 7 candidates from INC, 1 (25%) out of 4 candidates from AITC, both candidates from CPI, the candidate fielded by Goemcarancho Otrec Astro from Goa and 3 (12%) out of 25 Independent candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
  
• Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 1 (14%)out of 7 candidates from INC, 1(25%) out of 4 candidates from AITC and 3 (12%) out of 25 Independent candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits​.
• ​Red Alert Constituencies*: 1 constituency, South Goa constituency has 4 candidates with declared criminal cases.​

Financial Background

• Crorepati Candidates:Out of the 74 candidates analysed, 20 (27%) are crorepatis.
• Party-wise Crorepati Candidates:6 (86%) out of 7 candidates in INC, 3 (43%) out of 7 candidates in BJP, both candidates from AGP, 1 (50%) out of 2 candidates from CPI(M) and 2 (8%) out of 25 Independent candidates have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore. 
• ​State-wise Crorepati Candidates: ​​
  
• Average Assets:The average assets per candidate contesting in the 4^th phase of Lok Sabha 2014 elections is Rs.2.12 Crores.
• Party-wise Average Assets:Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 7 INC candidates is Rs 4.01 crores, 7 BJP candidates have average assets of Rs.1.67 crores, 6 AAP candidates have average assets worth of Rs. 34.20 lakhs and 4 AITC candidates have average assets of Rs. 4.51 crores.
• Party-wise Asset Rank: ​​ ​​5 (71%) out of ​​7 INC candidates occupy the top three assets positions amongst all the contesting candidates in their respective constituencies. Similarly, ​​3 (43%) out of​​ ​​ 7 BJP candidates and ​​ ​​both the candidates from AGP candidates occupy the top three asset positions in their constituency.
• High Asset Candidates: ​​5 candidates have declared ​​more than ​​Rs.8 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	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Adv. Jawahar Leonardo Dias	Goa	South Goa	Goemcarancho Otrec Astro	56,42,23,740  56 Crore+	Y
2	Dayanand G. Narvekar	Goa	North Goa	IND	18,43,06,689  18 Crore+	Y
3	Churchill Alemao	Goa	South Goa	AITC	14,98,68,252  14 Crore+	Y

• Low Asset Candidates: A total of 7 candidates have declared assets less than Rs. 1 Lakh. The three candidates with lowest assets are as follows:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Falguni Tripura	Tripura	Tripura East	CPI(ML)L	3,500  3 Thou+	N
2	Subarnamala Deb Barma	Tripura	Tripura East	Amra Bangalee	7,485  7 Thou+	N
3	Sukamal Das	Assam	Silchar	IND	25,000  25 Thou+	N

• ​​ Candidates who have not given value for Immovable Assets: 8 candidates have not given value for atleast one immovable asset declared in their affidavits​.
  
• ​Candidates who have outstanding dues with Government Departments:3 candidates have declared that they have pending dues to government departments​.
• ​​​Candidates with High Liabilities:A total of 5 candidates have declared liabilities of more than Rs. 50 lakhs. Out of these 5 candidates, 3 have declared liabilities of Rs. 1 crore and above.
• ​​Candidates with High Income*: 4 candidates have declared total annual income of more than Rs. 40 lakhs. 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	Dayanand G. Narvekar	IND	North Goa	18,43,06,689 18 Crore+	2012-2013	74,88,400 74 Lacs+	37,44,200 37 Lacs+
2	Churchill Alemao	AITC	South Goa	14,98,68,252 14 Crore+	2013-2014	62,28,114 62 Lacs+	33,06,820 33 Lacs+
3	Joy Ram Engleng	BJP	Autonomous District	2,20,32,158 2 Crore+	2013-2014	43,34,890 43 Lacs+	43,34,890 43 Lacs+

• Candidates who have not declared Income Tax Details*:41 (55%) candidates out of 74 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: 5 candidates with assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore, have not declared Income Tax Details.

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Other Background details (Education, Gender, Age):

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Consolidated Executive Summary

Phase 1 to 4
​National Election Watch (NEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 1566 candidates out of 1594 candidates who are contesting in Phase 1 to Phase 4 of Lok Sabha 2014 Elections. The rest of the candidates were not analysed due to unavailability of the affidavits on the ECI website at the making of 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	7th April
2	37	37	7	1	3%	23	62%	Rs.9.12 crores	9th April
3	1419	1391	91	262	19%	397	29%	Rs.3.05 crores	10th April
4	74	74	7	9	12%	20	27%	Rs.2.12 crores	12th April
​​Total	1594	1566	111	278	18%	456	29%	Rs. 3.26  crores

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Criminal Background

• Candidates with Criminal Cases:Out of the 1566 candidates analysed, 278 candidates (18%) has declared criminal cases against themselves.
  
• Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases:155 (10%) candidates have declared serious criminal cases including cases related to murder, rape, robbery etc.
• Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases:23 (25%) of 92 candidates fielded by INC, 38 (39%) out of 97 candidates from BJP, 15 (16%) out of 92 fielded by AAP and 16 (18%) out of 89 BSP candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
• Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 14 (15%) out of 92 candidates fielded by INC, 22 (23%) out of 97 candidates from BJP, 10 (11%) out of 92 fielded by AAP and 9 (10%) out of 89 BSP candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.​

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• State-wise break up of candidates with declared criminal cases:

State	Total number of Candidates analyzed	Candidates with declared criminal cases	% of candidates with declared criminal cases	candidates with serious declared criminal cases	% of candidates with serious declared criminal cases
Kerala	256	74	29%	31	12%
Haryana	229	15	7%	10	4%
Maharashtra	200	36	18%	19	10%
National Capital Territory Of Delhi	150	23	15%	13	9%
Uttar Pradesh	146	33	23%	26	18%
Madhya Pradesh	110	17	16%	9	8%
Orissa	97	19	20%	13	13%
Assam	88	6	7%	4	5%
Bihar	80	21	26%	12	15%
Jharkhand	60	14	23%	8	13%
Tripura	25	3	12%	1	4%
Goa	19	6	32%	3	16%
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	15	3	20%	2	13%
Chandigarh	15	2	13%	1	7%
Arunachal Pradesh	11	1	9%	0%
Chhattisgarh	8	2	25%	1	13%
Lakshadweep	6	3	50%	2	33%
Others	51	0	0%	0	0%
Total	1566	278	18%	155	10%

• Red Alert Constituencies*:​​ 51 constituencies have at least 3 candidates with declared criminal cases.  

Financial Background

• Crorepati Candidates:Out of the 1566 candidates analysed, 456 (29%) are crorepatis.
• Party-wise Crorepati Candidates:75 (82%) out of 92 candidates in INC, 62 (64%) out of 97 candidates in BJP, 40 (44%) out of 92 candidates in AAP and 34 (38%) out of 89 candidates in BSP have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore. 

 

• State-wise Crorepati Candidates:

State Name	Total Candidates	Crorepati Candidates	Percentage of Crorepati Candidates
Haryana	229	92	40%
Uttar Pradesh	146	65	45%
National Capital Territory Of Delhi	150	49	33%
Maharashtra	200	46	23%
Kerala	256	46	18%
Orissa	97	26	27%
Bihar	80	25	31%
Madhya Pradesh	110	22	20%
Assam	88	19	22%
Jharkhand	60	10	17%
Meghalaya	10	8	80%
Goa	19	7	37%
Arunachal Pradesh	11	6	55%
Tripura	25	6	24%
Chandigarh	15	5	33%
Sikkim	6	4	67%
Manipur	10	4	40%
Jammu & Kashmir	19	4	21%
Chhattisgarh	8	3	38%
Mizoram	3	3	100%
Nagaland	3	2	67%
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	15	2	13%
Lakshadweep	6	2	33%
Total	1566	456	29 %

• Average Assets:The average assets per candidate contesting from Phase 1 to 4 of Lok Sabha 2014 elections is Rs.3.26 Crores.
  
• Party-wise Average Assets:Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 92 INC candidates is Rs 15.40 crores, 97 BJP candidates have average assets of Rs.5.51 crores, 92 AAP candidates have average assets worth of Rs. 2.63 crores and 89 BSP candidates have average assets of Rs. 8.27 crores.​

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