Analysis of Financial, Criminal Background and Other Details of Newly Elected MLAs in the Delhi Assembly Elections, 2013

Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Delhi Election Watch (DEW) have analyzed the self-sworn affidavits of all 70 newly elected MLAs in the Delhi 2013 Assembly Elections. Detailed reports in Hindi and English are attached with this mail

Summary and Highlights:

Asset and Criminal background Comparison of Re-elected MLAs:

·        Number of Re-elected MLAs: Delhi Election Watch has analysed the affidavits of all 22 re-elected MLAs.

 Re-elected Winners with Criminal Cases: There are 15 re-elected MLAs who have declared criminal cases in 2013. Out of these 15 re-elected MLAs, 10 had declared criminal cases in the last assembly elections too. 

 Average Asset growth of Re-elected MLAs in 2013 Elections: The average asset of these 22 re-elected MLAs now in 2013 is Rs 14.22 Crores. The average assets of these 22 MLAs in 2008 was Rs. 3.24 Crores. The average asset growth of these 22 re-elected MLAs is 338% or by Rs. 10.97 Crores.                                                                 

Party Wise Average Asset Increase: 13 re-elected MLAs of BJP have shown an average asset increase of 392%or Rs 14.10 Crores. Similarly for 8 re-elected MLAs of INC the average asset increase is 237% or  Rs 7.20 Crores. 1re-elected MLA of JD(U) has shown an average increase in assets of 164% or Rs 45.89 Lakhs.

·Highest growth In Assets in 5 years (2008-2013): The maximum growth in assets has been for Sat Prakash Rana of BJP from Bijwasan Constituency. He has declared an increase of Rs. 105.51 Crores (1652%) i.e from Rs. 6.38 Crores in 2008 to Rs. 111.89 Crores in 2013(Sat Prakash Rana has not declared the value of two vehicles in his 2008 affidavit). Assets of Devender Yadav of INC from Badli Constituency have increased by Rs 20.04 Crores (271%),i.e. from Rs. 7.38 Crores in 2008 to Rs 27.43 Crores in 2013(Devender Yadav has not declared the value of two vehicles and two LIC policies in his 2008 affidavit). Assets of Dharm Dev Solanki of BJP from Palam Constituency have risen by Rs 18.01 Crores (191%), from Rs 9.42 Crores in 2008 to Rs 27.43 Crores in 2013 (Dharm Dev Solanki has not declared value of two vehicles and LIC policy of Rs. 6 Lakhs has not been considered in his 2008 affidavit).

Financial, Criminal and Other details of newly elected MLAs in the Delhi Assembly Elections, 2013

Party Name	Total number of MLAs analyzed	Crorepati MLAs	% Crorepatis	Average Assets (Rs.)	MLAs with declared Criminal Cases	% of MLAs with declared criminal cases	Male MLAs	Female MLAs
BJP	31	30	97%	Rs 12,49,21,821 ~ 12 Crore+	17	55%	31	0
Aam Aadmi Party	28	12	43%	Rs 1,82,29,392 ~ 1 Crore+	3	11%	25	3
INC	8	7	88%	Rs 10,25,13,053 ~ 10 Crore+	2	25%	8	0
SAD	1	1	100%	Rs 2,35,51,23,043 ~ 235 Crore+	1	100%	1	0
IND	1	1	100%	Rs 1,57,65,257 ~ 1 Crore+	1	100%	1	0
JD(U)	1	0	0%	Rs 73,95,822 ~ 73 Lacs+	1	100%	1	0
All Parties	70	51	73%	Rs 10,83,05,542 10 Crore+	25	36%	67	3

Table: Party wise summary details

Financial:

Crorepati MLAs: 51 (73%) out of 70 MLAs are crorepatis. In 2008, 47 (69%) MLAs were crorepatis.

Party Wise Crorepati MLAs: 30 (97%) out of 31 BJP MLAs are crorepatis while 12 (43%) out of 28 MLAs of AAP are crorepatis. There are 7 crorepati MLAs from INC and one MLA from SAD. The only Independent MLA is also a crorepati.

Average Assets: The average asset per MLA in the Delhi 2013 Assembly Elections is Rs. 10.83 Crores. In 2008, it was Rs. 2.94 Crores.

Comparison of Crorepati MLAs (2008-2013):

Party Name	Delhi 2013 Assembly Elections			Delhi 2008 Assembly Elections
	Total number of MLAs analyzed	Crorepati MLAs	Percentage of Crorepati MLAs	Total number of MLAs analyzed	Crorepatis MLAs	Percentage of Crorepati MLAs
BJP	31	30	97%	23	19	83%
AAM AADMI PARTY	28	12	43%	0	0	0%
INC	8	7	88%	40	25	63%
IND	1	1	100%	1	1	100%
Others	2	1	50%	4	2	50%
Total	70	51	73%	68	47	69%

Table: Comparison of crorepati MLAs

Party-wise Average Assets: The average asset per MLA for BJP is Rs.12.49 Crores, for AAP it is Rs.1.82 Crore and for INC it is Rs 10.25 Crores.

Highest Asset MLAs: Top 3 MLAs with highest declared assets are Manjinder Singh Sirsa of SAD from Rajouri garden constituency with declared assets of Rs.235.51 Crores followed by Sat Prakash Rana of BJP from Bijwasan constituency with assets worth Rs. 111.89 Crores and Dharm dev Solanki of BJP from Palam constituency with declared assets worth Rs.27.43 Crores.       .

·Chances of Winning for a Crorepati Candidate: The chances of winning for crorepati candidates is as high as 26% while the same for candidates with low assets is 7%.

Party	Total No. of Candidates analyzed	Crorepati Candidates	Candidates with low assets (Less than 1 Crore)	Total No. of Winners	Crorepati Winners		Winners with low assets (Less than 1 Crore)	Chances of winning for crorepati candidates (No. of Crorepati Winners / No. of Crorepati Candidates	Chances of Winning for Candidates with Low Assets (No. of winners with Low Assets/No. of Candidates with Low Assets)
BJP	68	58	10	31	30	1		52%	10%
AAM AADMI PARTY	70	33	37	28	12	16		36%	43%
INC	70	61	9	8	7	1		11%	11%
SAD	2	2	0	1	1	0		50%	-
IND	218	37	181	1	1	0		3%	0%
JD(U)	27	7	20	1	0	1		0%	5%
Total	455	198	257	70	51	19		26%	7%

Table: Chances of winning for crorepati candidates

Low Asset MLAs: Dharmender Singh Koli of AAP from Seemapuri constituency has declared lowest assets worth Rs. 20,800 followed by Rakhi Birla of AAP from Mangolpuri constituency with assets worth Rs. 51,150and Akhilesh Pati tripathi of AAP from Model Town has declared assets worth Rs. 1.59 Lakhs.

 High Liability MLAs: A total of 12 MLAs have declared liabilities of Rs. 1 Crore and above. The top three MLAs with highest declared liabilities are Manjinder Singh Sirsa of SAD from Rajouri Garden Constituency with declared liabilities worth Rs. 32.01 Crores, followed by Veena Anand of AAP from Patel Nagar Constituency with liabilities of Rs. 7.60 Crores and Nand Kishore Garg of BJP from Trinagar Constituency with declared liabilities of Rs. 5.59 Crores.

Undeclared PAN : Dharmender Singh Koli of AAP from Seemapuri constituency is the only MLA who has not declared his PAN details.

MLAs who have not declared their ITR: 7 MLAs declared that they have not filed their Income Tax Returns.

Highest Income declared in their last ITR: Manjinder Singh Sirsa of SAD from Rajouri Garden constituency has declared the highest income in his ITR of Rs.1.50 Crore followed by Sat Prakash Rana of BJP from Bijwasan constituency with an income of Rs. 83.45 Lakhs and Manoj Kumar Shokeen of BJP from Nangloi Jat constituency has declared an income ofRs. 63.68 Lakhs.

Criminal:

MLAs with Criminal Cases: 36% or 25 of the 70 MLAs have declared criminal cases against them. In 2008, 43% MLAs had declared criminal cases.

Party-Wise Candidates with Declared Criminal Cases: BJP has 17 out of 31 (55%), AAP has 3 out of 28(11%) and INC has 2 out of 8 (25%) MLAs who have declared criminal cases. One MLA from JD(U), one from SAD (Akali Dal) and one independent MLA have declared criminal cases against them.

MLAs with Serious Criminal Cases:  Out of the 25 MLAs with criminal cases, 20 MLAs have declared serious criminal cases like attempt to murder, dacoity and assault against women etc.

Candidates with serious criminal cases who lost the election: Out of 94 candidates who contested with serious criminal cases in Delhi Assembly Elections, 74 candidates lost the elections.

Comparison of MLAs with criminal cases (2008-2013):

Party Name	Delhi 2013 Assembly Elections					Delhi 2008 Assembly Election
	Total number of MLAs analyzed	MLAs with declared Criminal Cases	% of MLAs with declared criminal cases	MLAs with serious declared criminal cases