An analysis of affidavits filed by canidates in the fray of general elections-2019 from Andhra Pradesh presents an interesting picutre of future law makers.
While the name of chief minister Chandrababu Naidu (TDP) finds place among the top 3 candidates with high assets, YS Jaganmohan Reddy is one of the top 3 candidates with highest income.
The net worth of Chandrababu Naidu’s assets is Rs 668.57 croes. Curiously the top two candidates (Bollineni Krishnaiah, TDP, Rs 668.61 crore) P Nayarayan (TDP Rs 689.67 crore), in list are also from TDP.
Jagan with his declared income of Rs 38.71 crore tops the list of 3 with high income. The remaining two are Meda Mallikarjuna Reddy(YSRC, Rs 16.82 crore) and Nara Lokesh(TDP, Rs 16.59 crore).
The Andhra Pradesh Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 2007 out of 2118 candidates, who are contesting in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly Elections. There are 111 candidates who have not been analysed due to the unavailability of their complete and properly scanned affidavits on the ECI website at the time of making the report.
Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of 2007 candidates analyzed, 331(17%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. In 2014 Andhra Pradesh Assembly Elections, out of 1309 candidates analysed, 277(21%) had declared criminal cases against themselves.
# Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 220(11%) have declared serious criminal cases against themselves. In 2014 Andhra Pradesh Assembly Elections, 146 (11%) candidates had declared serious criminal cases against themselves.
# Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases: Among major parties, 48(28%) out of 172 candidates analysed from TDP, 97(57%) out of 171 candidates analysed from YSRCP, 19(11%) out of 169 candidates analysed from BJP, 23 (14%) out of 166 candidates analysed from INC and 26(21%) out of 127 candidates from Janasena Party, have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
# Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: Among major parties, 27(16%) out of 172 candidates analysed from TDP, 57(33%) out of 171 candidates analysed from YSRCP, 10(6%) out of 169 candidates analysed from BJP, 16 (10%) out of 166 candidates analysed from INC and 17(13%) out of 127 candidates from Janasena Party, have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
# Candidates with declared cases related to crime against women: 28 candidates have declared cases related to crime against women such as Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty (IPC Section-354), Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman (IPC Section-509) etc. against themselves.
# Candidates with declared cases related to murder: 14 candidates have declared cases related to Murder (IPC Section-302) against themselves.
# Candidates with declared cases related to attempt to murder: 40 candidates have declared cases related to Attempt to murder (IPC Section-307) against themselves.
# Candidates with declared convicted cases: 24 candidates have declared convicted cases against themselves.
# Red Alert Constituency: 45(26%) out of 175 constituencies are Red alert constituencies. Red alert constituencies are those where 3 or more contesting candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.
Financial Background
Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 2007 candidates, 632(32%) are crorepatis. In 2014 Andhra Pradesh Assembly Elections, out of 1309 candidates, 470 (36%) were crorepatis.
Party wise Crorepati Candidates: Among major parties, 157(91%) out of 172 candidates analysed from TDP, 159(93%) out of 171 candidates analysed from YSRCP, 64(38%) out of 169 candidates analysed from BJP, 60 (36%) out of 166 candidates analysed from INC and 83(65%) out of 127 candidates from Janasena Party, have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.
Average assets: The average of assets per candidate analysed in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly Elections is Rs 5.82 Crores. In 2014 Andhra Pradesh Assembly Elections, average assets per candidate for 1309 candidates was Rs. 5.09 crores.
Party wise average assets: Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 172 TDP candidates is Rs. 32.39 crores, 171 YSRCP candidates is Rs 21.26 crores, 169 BJP candidates have average assets of Rs 3.24 crores, 166 INC candidates have average assets worth Rs 1.84 crores, 127 Janasena Party candidates have average assets worth Rs 7.97 crores, and 699 independent candidates have average assets worth Rs 54.76 lakhs.
High asset candidates: The details of top 3 candidates with highest declared assets, contesting in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly Elections are given below:
(1.Krishaniah Bollineni, 2. Ponguru Narayana and 3.Nara Chandrababu Naidu)
- Candidates with High Income as Declared in ITR: The details of top 3 candidates with high income declared in ITR are given below :
- Jaganmohan Reddy, Meda Mallikarjuna Reddy and Nara Lokesh
Full report of the analysis of the affidavits filed by candidates in the fray is available at ADRINDIA website
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