The National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 1266 out of 1279 candidates, who are contesting in the Lok Sabha Phase I. There are 13 candidates who have not been analysed due to unavailability of their properly scanned and complete affidavits, at the time of making this report.
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Summary and Highlights
Criminal Background
- Candidates with Criminal Cases: 213(17%) out of 1266 candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.
- Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 146(12%) out of 1266 have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.
- Candidates with Declared Convicted Cases: 12 candidates have declared convicted cases against themselves.
- Candidates with cases related to Murder: 10 candidates have declared cases related to murder (IPC Section -302) against themselves.
Candidates with cases related to Attempt to Murder: 25 candidates have declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC Section 307) against themselves.
- Candidates with cases related to Kidnapping: 4 candidates have declared cases related to kidnapping such kidnapping for ransom, etc. (IPC Section-364A), kidnapping or abducting in order to murder (IPC Section-364), Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc. (IPC Section-366) etc, against themselves.
- Candidates with cases related to Crime Against Women: 16 candidates have declared cases related to crime against women such as rape (IPC Section-376), assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty (IPC Section-354), husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty (IPC Section-498A), etc., against themselves.
- Candidates with cases related to Hate Speech: 12 candidates have declared cases related to hate speech against themselves.
Figure: Major Party Wise Percentage of Candidates with Declared Criminal Cases
- Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 30(36%) out of 83 candidates from BJP, 35(42%) out of 83 candidates from INC, 8(25%) out of 32 candidates from BSP, 13(52%) out of 25 candidates from YSRCP, 4(16%) out of 25 candidates from TDP and 5(29%) out of 17 candidates from TRS have declared criminal cases against themselves.
- Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 16(19%) out of 83 candidates from BJP, 22(27%) out of 83 candidates from INC, 4(13%) out of 32 candidates from BSP, 10(40%) out of 25 candidates from YSRCP, 2(8%) out of 25 candidates from TDP and 3(18%) out of 17 candidates from TRS have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.
- Red Alert Constituencies*: 37 out of 91 constituencies are red alert constituencies. Red alert constituencies are those constituencies where 3 or more contesting candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.
Financial Background
- Crorepati Candidates: There are 401(32%) candidates who have assets worth Rs. 1 crore and more.
- Party wise Crorepati Candidates: Among the major parties 69(83%) out of 83 candidates from INC, 65(78%) out of 83 candidates from BJP, 15(47%) out of 32 candidates from BSP, 25(100%) candidates from TDP, 22(88%) out of 25 candidates from YSRCP and 17 (100%) candidates from TRS have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.
- Average assets: The average asset per candidate contesting in the Lok Sabha phase I election is Rs. 6.63 crores.
- Party wise average assets: Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 83 INC candidates is Rs. 21.93 crores, 83 BJP candidates is Rs 14.56 crores, 32 BSP candidates have average assets of Rs 12.63 crores, 25 YSRCP candidates have average assets worth Rs 62.94 crores, 25 TDP candidates have average assets worth Rs 57.77 crores, and 17 TRS candidates have average assets of Rs 45.87 crores
- High asset candidates: The details of the top 3 candidates with the highest assets are given below :
| S.No. | Name | State | Constituency | Party Name | Movable Assets (Rs) | Immovable Assets (Rs) | Total Assets (Rs) | PAN Given |
| 1 | Konda Vishweshwar Reddy | TELANGANA | CHEVELLA | INC | 8,56,38,18,770 | 38,63,60,400 | 8,95,01,79,170 895 Crore+ |
Y |
| 2 | Prasad Veera Potluri | ANDHRA PRADESH | VIJAYAWADA | YSRCP | 2,36,29,66,326 | 1,11,46,50,000 | 3,47,76,16,326 347 Crore+ |
Y |
| 3 | Kanumuru Raghu Rama Krishna Raju | ANDHRA PRADESH | NARSAPURAM | YSRCP | 1,98,90,22,378 | 1,27,03,83,000 | 3,25,94,05,378 325 Crore+ |
Y |
Table: Top 3 high asset candidates
- Zero Assets Candidates: There are 23 candidates who have declared zero assets.
- Low asset candidates: The details of three candidates with the lowest assets( excluding zero assets candidates) are as follows:
| S.No. | Name | State | Constituency | Party Name | Movable Assets (Rs) | Immovable Assets (Rs) | Total Assets (Rs) | PAN Given |
| 1 | Nalla Prem Kumar | TELANGANA | CHEVELLA | Prem Janata Dal | 500 | 0 | 500 5 Hund+ |
Y |
| 2 | Rajendra Kendruka | ODISHA | KORAPUT | CPI(ML) Red Star | 565 | 0 | 565 5 Hund+ |
N |
| 3 | Alakunta Rajanna | TELANGANA | NIZAMABAD | IND | 1,000 | 0 | 1,000 1 Thou+ |
Y |
Table: Candidates with low assets
- Candidates with high liabilities: The details of top 3 candidates with high liabilities are given below:
| S.No. | Name | State | Constituency | Party Name | Total Assets(Rs) | Liabilities (Rs) | Disputed liabilities (Rs) | PAN Given |
| 1 | Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah | UTTARAKHAND | TEHRI GARHWAL | BJP | 1,84,66,40,100 184 Crore+ |
1,35,00,00,000 135 Crore+ |
0 | Y |
| 2 | Malook Nagar | UTTAR PRADESH | BIJNOR | BSP | 2,49,96,28,021 249 Crore+ |
# 1,01,61,48,176 101 Crore+ |
20,48,20,865 20 Crore+ |
Y |
| 3 | Kanumuru Raghu Rama Krishna Raju | ANDHRA PRADESH | NARSAPURAM | YSRCP | 3,25,94,05,378 325 Crore+ |
1,01,44,67,354 101 Crore+ |
0 | Y |
Table: top 3 candidates with high liabilities
- Undeclared PAN: 114 candidates have not given PAN details.
- Candidates with high income as declared in the ITR*: There are 33 candidates who have declared their annual total income** to be more than Rs. 1 crore. The details of top 3 candidates with the highest annual income are given below:
| S.No. | Name | Party Name | Constituency | State | 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 in the last financial year (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs) | Self income shown by candidate in ITR (Rs) |
| 1 | Jayadev Galla | TDP | GUNTUR | ANDHRA PRADESH | 3,05,14,85,242 305 Crore+ | business, agriculture, salary from parliament, income from investment and rents | business and income from investments | 2017-2018 | 43,44,33,800 43 Crore+ | 40,16,09,970 40 Crore+ |
| 2 | Beeda Masthan Rao | TDP | NELLORE | ANDHRA PRADESH | 1,65,43,92,880 165 Crore+ | Business Income & Rental Income & Director Remuneration, Bank Int. Divided and Pension From State Govt. | Directors’ Remuneration, Partner Remuneration & Share of Profit From Farms | 2017-2018 | 34,25,70,600 34 Crore+ | 33,24,22,800 33 Crore+ |
| 3 | Dr.Gaddam Ranjith Reddy | TRS | CHEVELLA | TELANGANA | 1,63,46,95,131 163 Crore+ | Salary Income, Rental Income, Business Income & Agriculture Income | Salary Income, Rental Income & Agriculture Income | 2017-2018 | 33,43,25,847 33 Crore+ | 16,82,34,433 16 Crore+ |
Table: Top 3 Candidates with highest income declared in ITR
*Some Candidates may be exempted from filing ITR
** As per section 10 (26) of IT Act 1961, a member of ST residing in specific area of in Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura or Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir is exempt from paying IT.
- Candidates who have not declared Income Tax Details*: 690 (55%) candidates have not declared their income tax details.
*Some Candidates may be exempted from filing ITR
- Candidates with high Assets who have not declared Income Tax Details*: There are 70 candidates with assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore who have not declared their ITR details. The details of top 3 candidates with high assets and who have not declared their ITR details are given below :
| S.No. | Name | State** | Constituency | Party Name | Movable Assets (Rs) | Immovable Assets (Rs) | Total Assets (Rs) | PAN Given | Self Income |
| 1 | Nabam Tuki | ARUNACHAL PRADESH | ARUNACHAL WEST | INC | 83,30,97,534 | 16,98,53,000 | 1,00,29,50,534 100 Crore+ | Y | ITR not filed |
| 2 | K L Chishi | NAGALAND | NAGALAND | INC | 56,59,329 | 36,45,00,000 | 37,01,59,329 37 Crore+ | Y | ITR not filed |
| 3 | Lowangcha Wanglat | ARUNACHAL PRADESH | ARUNACHAL EAST | INC | 2,58,30,297 | 32,77,00,000 | 35,35,30,297 35 Crore+ | Y | ITR not filed |
Table: Top 3 candidates with high assets and no ITR
*Some Candidates may be exempted from filing ITR
** As per section 10 (26) of IT Act 1961, a memberof ST residing in specific area of in Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura or Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir is exempt from paying IT.
Other Background Details
- Education details of candidates: 526(42%) candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5th and 12th, while 619 (49%) candidates have declared having educational qualification of graduate or above. 19 candidates have declared to be just literate and 66 candidates are illiterate.
- Age details of candidates: 411(32%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 to 40 years while 671 (53%) candidates have declared their age to be between 41 to 60 years. There are172(14%) candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years. 2 candidates have declared their age to be above 80 years. 10 candidates have not given their age.
- Gender details of candidates: 89(7%) female candidates are contesting in the Lok Sabha Phase I elections.
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