Punjab Elections 2017 Analysis of Financial Criminal Background of candidates

Punjab Assembly Elections 2017

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

Punjab Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have

analyzed the self-sworn affidavits of all (1145) candidates from the Punjab 2017

Assembly Elections.

Criminal Background –

Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of the 1145 candidates analyzed, 100(9%) candidates have declared criminal cases against them.

Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 77(7%) candidates have declared serious criminal cases against them.

Candidates with cases related to murder: 4 candidates have declared cases related to murder

(Indian Penal Code Section-302) against them

Candidates with cases related to attempt to murder: 11 candidates have declared cases related to

attempt to murder (Indian Penal Code Section-307) against them

Candidates with cases related to Crimes against Women: 5 candidates have declared cases related to crimes against women

Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases:

14 (12%) out of 117 candidates from Indian National Congress (INC), 12(11%) out of 112 candidates from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), 10(11%) out of 94 candidates from Shiromani Akali Dal(SAD), 7(9%) out of 77 candidates from Apna Punjab Party, 5(9%) out of 54 candidates from Shiromani Akali Dal (A) (Simranjit Singh Mann), 2(9%) out of 23 candidates from

Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), and 19(6%) out of 304 Independent candidates have declared criminal cases against them in their affidavits

Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 9 (8%) out of 117 candidates from Indian National Congress (INC), 9(8%) out of 112 candidates from Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP), 8(9%) out of 94 candidates from Shiromani Akali Dal(SAD) , 5(7%) out of 77 candidates from Apna Punjab Party, 5(9%) out of 54 candidates from Shiromani Akali Dal (A), 1(4%) out of 23 candidates from Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), and 18(6%) out of 304 Independent candidates have declared serious criminal cases including murder, attempt to murder, crime against women, kidnapping etc. against them in their affidavits.

Party wise Crorepati Candidates: 87 (93%) out of 94 candidates from SAD, 103 (88%) out of 117 candidates from INC, 20(87%) out of 23 candidates from BJP,71 (63%) out of 112 candidates from AAP, 24 (31%) out of 77 candidates from Apna Punjab Party, 12 (22%) out of 54 candidates fielded by SAD (A) and 69 (23%) out of 304 Independent candidates have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.

Average assets: The average of assets per candidate contesting in the Punjab Assembly Elections 2017 is Rs 3.49 Crores.

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Party wise average assets: Among the major parties, the average assets per candidate for 117 INC candidates is Rs 12.38 Crores, 23 BJP candidates have average assets of Rs 6.10 Crores, 112 AAP candidates have average assets worth Rs 6.24 Crores, 94 SAD candidates have average assets worth Rs 9.26 crores, 54 SAD (A) candidates have average assets worth Rs 1.09 crores, and 304 Independent candidates have average assets of Rs. 1.49 Crores.

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High asset candidates*: The top 3 candidates with highest assets contesting in the Punjab 2017 Assembly Elections are given below:

Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)
Rana Gurjit Singh	KAPURTHALA	KAPURTHALA	INC	1,09,25,25,000	60,64,35,000	1,69,89,60,000 169 Crore+
Shiv Lal Doda	FAZILKA	ABOHAR	IND	1,24,55,58,000	17,31,12,000	1,41,86,70,000 141 Crore+
Karan Kaur	MUKTSAR	MUKTSAR	INC	79,52,210	1,18,61,70,000	1,19,41,22,210 119 Crore+

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Undeclared PAN: A total of 221(19%) out of the 1145 candidates analysed have not declared their PAN details

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Candidates with high income as declared in the ITR: 13 candidates have declared total annual income of more than Rs 1 Crore. The details of these candidates are as given below:

1 Navjot Singh Sidhu INC AMRITSAR EAST AMRITSAR 45,90,98,908 45 Crore+

2 Shiv Lal Doda IND ABOHAR FAZILKA 1,41,86,70,000 141 Crore+

3 Aman Arora AAP SUNAM SANGRUR 65,88,61,000 65 Crore+

4 Rana Gurjit Singh INC KAPURTHALA KAPURTHALA 1,69,89,60,000 169 Crore+

5 Amit Doda IND ABOHAR FAZILKA 14,73,99,000 14 Crore+

6 Kewal Singh Dhillon INC BARNALA BARNALA 89,14,18,624 89 Crore+

7 Sukhbir Singh Badal SAD JALALABAD FAZILKA 1,02,07,61,522 102 Crore+

8 Mohammad Owais SAD MALERKOTLA SANGRUR 9,32,38,844 9 Crore+

9 Paramjit Singh AAP HOSHIARPUR HOSHIARPUR 50,08,72,195 50 Crore+

10 Kuldip Singh Aapna Punjab Party AMRITSAR SOUTH AMRITSAR 17,34,373 17 Lacs+

11 Parkash Singh SAD LAMBI MUKTSAR 14,49,82,207 14 Crore+

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Education details of candidates: 688 (60%) candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5th pass and 12th pass, while 365(32%) candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above.

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Age details of candidates: 644 (56%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 and 50 years while 490(43%) candidates have declared their age to be between 51 and 80 years.

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Gender details of candidates: 81 (7%) women candidates are contesting in the Punjab assembly election, 2017.

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Candidates with self-declared criminal cases: Out of the 1145 candidates, 100 (9%) candidates have declared criminal cases against them, while 77 (7%) candidates have declared serious criminal cases against them

Source – ADR

Friday, February 3, 2017

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