Press Release

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Andhra Pradesh Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 26 Ministers including Chief Minister from Andhra Pradesh State Assembly 2019. For the complete report, please go to: https://adrindia.org/content/analysis-criminal-background-financial-education-gender-and-other-details-ministers-andhra

Summary and Highlights

Year	Number of Ministers Analysed	Number of crorepati Ministers	Percentage of crorepati ministers	Average Assets (Rs. in Crores)	Number of Ministers with declared criminal cases	Percentage of Ministers with declared criminal cases	Number of Ministers with declared serious criminal cases	Percentage of Ministers with declared serious criminal cases	Number of Women in Cabinet	Percentage of Women in Cabinet
Andhra Pradesh Cabinet 2014	18	16	89%	22.40	10	56%	4	22%	3	17%
Andhra Pradesh Cabinet 2019	26	23	88%	35.25	17	65%	9	35%	3	12%

Table: Analysis of Andhra Pradesh Cabinet (2014 vs. 2019)

Criminal Background

· Ministers with Criminal Cases: 17(65%) ministers have declared criminal cases against themselves.

· Ministers with Serious Criminal Cases: 9(35%) ministers have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

Financial Background

· Crorepati Ministers: Out of the 26 ministers, 23 (88%) are crorepatis.

· Average Assets: The average assets of 26 ministers analysed is Rs 35.25 crores.

· Ministers with Highest Assets: The minister with the highest declared total assets is Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy with assets worth Rs 510.38 crores. The top three ministers with highest declared assets are:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy	Kadapa	Pulivendla	YSRCP	4,43,48,37,267	66,89,79,299	5,10,38,16,566 510 Crore+	Y
2	Peddi Reddy Ramachandra Reddy	Chittoor	Punganur	YSRCP	21,28,69,927	1,09,69,14,000	1,30,97,83,927 130 Crore+	Y
3	Mekapati Goutham Reddy	Nellore	Atmakur	YSRCP	13,76,47,301	48,19,22,775	61,95,70,076 61 Crore+	Y

Table: Top 3 Ministers with Highest Assets

· Liabilities: A total of 21 out of 26 ministers analysed have declared liabilities. The details of the top 3 ministers with highest liabilities are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Peddi Reddy Ramachandra Reddy	Chittoor	Punganur	YSRCP	1,30,97,83,927 130 Crore+	20,38,62,494 20 Crore+	Y
2	Cherukuvada Sriranganadha Raju	West Godavari	Achanta	YSRCP	44,18,37,720 44 Crore+	12,24,85,291 12 Crore+	Y
3	Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao	Visakhapatnam	Bhimli	YSRCP	35,57,13,877 35 Crore+	5,04,31,712 5 Crore+	Y

Table: Top 3 ministers with Declared Liabilities

· Ministers with High Income: 3 out of 26 ministers analysed have declared their total annual income above Rs. 1 Crore.The details of these ministers are given below:

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Constituency	District	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 minister	Total income shown by minister in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self income shown by minister in ITR (Rs)
1	Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy	YSRCP	Pulivendla	Kadapa	5,10,38,16,566 510 Crore+	MLA Salary,MP Pension, Rental income, other income (bank interest, dividend and agriculture income	Salary, Rental income, Capital gains other income(interest dividend and agriculture income)	2017-2018	38,71,47,777 38 Crore+	25,89,38,290 25 Crore+
2	Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao	YSRCP	Bhimli	Visakhapatnam	35,57,13,877 35 Crore+	Business	Business	2017-2018	3,45,95,990 3 Crore+	1,46,22,408 1 Crore+
3	Dr. Suresh Audimulapu	YSRCP	Yerragondapalem	Prakasam	16,22,92,753 16 Crore+	Salary,pension,property income,agricultural income, capital gains, business income etc.	Salary,pension,property income,agricultural income,capital gains etc.	2017-2018	1,00,68,833 1 Crore+	28,91,900 28 Lacs+

Table: Top 3 Ministers with high income

Other Background details (Education, Gender, Age)

· Ministers’ Education: 8(31%) ministers have declared their educational qualification to be between 8^th and 12^th standard while 18 (69%) ministers have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above.

· Ministers’ Age: A total of 12(46%) ministers have declared their age to be between 31-50 years while 14 (54%) ministers have declared their age to be between 51- 70 years.

· Women Ministers: Out of 26 ministers, 3 are women.

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