comparison of 5 states going to polls with respect to criminal and financial details of ministers of these 5 states, performance of the Assembly and the MLAs and analysis of state budget allotted to the 5 states.
As can be seen from the report titled Combined Ministers, we have searched for the previous affidavits of 100 ministers filed with the Election Commission of India during the previous Assembly elections or subsequent elections and Lok Sabha and analysed them.
Highlights
- 33% ministers i.e. (33 out of 100 analyzed) have self declared pending criminal charges as per their affidavits filed during previous Assembly Elections. 17 ministers out of these 100 analyzed have declared serious IPC charges like murder and attempt to murder pending against them.
- Uttar Pradesh has the maximum percentage of ministers (46%) with pending criminal cases (21 out of 46). Out of these 21, 14 (30%) ministers have serious criminal cases pending against them.
- A total of 41 ministers (i.e. 41% of the total analyzed) are crorepatis.
- Punjab has the highest crorepatis i.e. 83% in its Cabinet followed by Goa and Uttar Pradesh with 67% and 37% respectively.
- The average asset of a minister in the 5 states comes out to be 3.02 crores even though Manipur has no crorepatis in its Cabinet.
State
Total No. of MLAs
Total No. of Ministers Analyzed
Ministers with Pending Criminal Cases
% of Ministers with Pending Criminal Cases
Ministers with Serious Pending Criminal Cases
% of Ministers with Serious Criminal Cases
Uttar Pradesh
403
46
21
46%
14
30%
Punjab
117
18
7
39%
3
17%
Uttarakhand
70
12
4
33%
0
0%
Manipur
60
12
0
0%
0
0%
Goa
40
12
1
8%
0
0%
Total
690
100
33
33%
17
17%
- Goa has the maximum average number of sittings/year (26) followed by Manipur (24) and UP (22).
- The least average number of sittings/year is for Punjab and Uttarakhand (19)
- The highest average attendance of MLAs is in the Uttarakhand Assembly (91%) followed by Punjab (71%) and Manipur (65%). Uttar Pradesh MLAs have the least average attendance (20%).
- This compares very poorly with the number of sittings of MPs in Lok Sabha. The current Lok Sabha in the last 2.5 years sat for 208 days which averages to about 77 days in a year.
State Assembly | No. of Years considered | Number of Sessions held by the Assembly | Total number of days of sittings | Average number of days of sittings /year | Average attendance of MLAs (%) | No. of times assembly adjourned |
Uttar Pradesh (till Feb ’11) | 4 years | 10 | 89 | 22 | 23% | 26 |
Punjab (till Mar ’11) | 4 years | 10 | 76 | 19 | 71% | 14 |
Manipur (till Aug' 11) | 4.5 years | 11 | 110 | 24 | 65% | 11 |
Uttarakhand (till Sept ’10) | 3.5 years | 11 | 68 | 19 | 91% | 108 |
Goa (till Feb’11) | 3.5 years | 12 | 95 | 26 | 60% | 85 |
15th Lok Sabha (till Dec ‘10) | 2.5 years | 9 | 208 | 77 | NA | NA |
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