Last Terminal {लास्ट टर्मिनल}: In Goa : 23% candidates are "declared criminals

Goa Assembly Elections 2012

Highlights (Report on the criminal, financial & other details of candidates in Goa)

Out of the 129 candidates analyzed by GEW/ADR for the of Goa Assembly Elections, 30 candidates or 23 % declared criminal cases against them. In 2007 assembly elections for the whole of Goa, 18% candidates had declared criminal cases against themselves.

Amongst major parties, every party has given tickets to candidates who have declared criminal cases. INC has 9 out of 33 (27 %), BJP has 9 out of 27 (33 %), AITC has 4 out of 18 (22 %), NCP has 2 out of 7 (29%) and IND candidates have 3 out of 18 (17 %) candidates with pending criminal cases.

Out of these 30 candidates with declared criminal cases, 7 have declared serious criminal cases like attempt to murder, theft, extortion etc. INC has 2, GVP has 1, UGDP has 1, NCP has 1 and 2 such candidates from IND.

Among these 30 candidates of who have declared criminal cases against themselves, the following candidates have declared the highest number of criminal cases against them: 1) Fransico Xavier Pacheco (of GVP contesting from Nuvem) has declared 10 cases against himself including charges related to extortion and abetment of suicide 2)Arjun Anil Salgaocar (IND contesting from Sanvordem) has declared 3 cases with charges related to theft 3) Atanasio Monserrate (of INC contesting from St. Cruz) has declared 2 cases against himself including 3 charges related to Voluntarily Causing hurt. Govind Gaude, an IND candidate from Priol has declared 1 charge related to attempt to murder.

Among other major parties, A total of 92 candidates out of 129 analyzed i.e. 71% were crorepatis. In 2007, there were 41% crorepati candidates.

The candidates with maximum assets in is Dinar Purshottam Kamat Tarcar of MGP from St. Cruz constituency with assets worth Rs. 211.76 Crores followed by Nirmala Sawant, IND from Cumbarjua with Rs. 36.30 Crores and Joaquim Alemao of INC from Cuncolim constituency with assets worth Rs. 31.26 crores.

A total of 3 candidates out of 129 analyzed declared assets less than Rs. 5 Lakhs.

A total of 29 (22%) candidates out of 129 analyzed declared liabilities of Rs. 1 crore or above.

Among major parties, the average asset per candidate for INC is 8.44 Crores, for BJP is 4.21 Crores, For NCP is 10.79 Crores, for AITC is 1.96 Crores, for GVP is 3.95 Crores, for UGDP is 81.65 Lakhs, for CPI is 33.83 lakhs, MGP is 33.50 Crores and IND is 7.20 Crores.

Out of 215 candidates contesting for of Goa Assembly Elections 2012, only 9 (4%) candidates are women.

Highlights (Report on the Analysis of asset increase of re-contesting MLAs in Goa)

The average asset of these MLAs as declared in 2007 is Rs 2, 70, 06,081 (2.70 crores).

The average asset of these MLAs as declared in 2012 is, Rs 8, 10, 00,111 (8.10 crore).

Average asset growth for these re-contesting MLAs is Rs 5, 39, 94,030 (5.39 crore).

Shyam Satardekar of INC from Curchorem constituency has the highest increase in asset worth Rs.25.30 Crores (from 4.89 Crores to 30.20 Crores), followed by Joaquim Alemao of INC from Cuncolim constituency with an asset increase of Rs. 22.13 Crores (from 9.12 Crores to 31.26 Crores) and Pratapsingh Rane of INC from Poreim constituency with an asset increase of Rs. 17.04 Crores (from 8.82 Crores to 25.87 Crores).

The highest percentage increase (1559%) has been for Alexio Reginaldo Loourenco of INC from Curtorim constituency. His assets rose from 7 lakhs in 2007 to 1.16 Crores in 2012. He is followed by Pratap Gauns of INC from Sanquelim constituency with a percentage increase of 1526% (5.58 lakhs in 2007 to 90.81 Lakhs in 2012) and Nilkanth Halarnkar of NCP from Tivim constituency with an increase of 968% (30.09 Lakhs in 2007 to 3.21 crores in 2012).

Highlights (Report on the ITR and PAN details of candidates in Goa)

Among all the candidates analyzed Shyam Satardekar (INC) has declared the highest annual income in his affidavit submitted to the ECI at the time of his nomination at Rs. 5.05 Crore followed by Govind Sawant (INC) at Rs. 3.39 Crore, Nirmala Sawant (IND) at Rs. 3.16 Crore and Joaquim Alemao (INC) at Rs. 2.11 Crore as per their last filed Income Tax Returns.

A total of 10 candidates (8%) out of the 129 candidates analyzed by the Goa Election Watch have declared that they have never filed income tax returns.

Out of the 10 candidates analyzed who have never filed income tax returns, AITC has 4 (22% of the 18 candidates analyzed) followed by UGDP with 3 (43% of the 7 candidates analyzed), CPI with 2 (50% of the 4 candidates analyzed), BJP with 1 (4% of the 27 candidates analyzed) who have never filed ITR.

Top 3 candidates with maximum assets but who have never filed IT returns are Ramakant Borkar of UGDP contesting from Cortalim has the highest total assets of Rs. 1.76 crores, followed by Mario Morais of AITC from Cuncolim with assets of Rs. 1.74 crores and Vishnu Wagh of BJP from St. Andre with Rs. 1.25 crores respectively

5 (4%) candidates have not declared their PAN details of which AITC has the maximum number of candidates (3) who have not declared their PAN details. CPI has 2 out of 4 candidates analyzed who have not declared their PAN card details.

Top three candidates with maximum assets but not declared their PAN card details are Pedro Caitano Pires of CPI contesting from St. Cruz constituency has the highest assets with worth Rs. 69.65 lakhs followed by Kamlakant Gadekar of CPI from Maem with assets of Rs. 6.24 lakhs and Shashi Panjikar of AITC from Priol with Rs. 6.15 Lakhs respectively.

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