Jharkhand Election 2024: Jharkhand Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analyzed self-affidavits of 522 out of 528 candidates contesting in the second phase of Jharkhand Assembly elections. These affidavits show that 148 i.e. 28 percent candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Of these, the number of candidates with serious criminal cases is 122 i.e. 23 percent.
How many candidates from which party?
A party-wise look at the candidates with criminal cases shows that 14 (44 per cent) out of 32 candidates analyzed are from BJP, 8 (33 per cent) out of 24 candidates analyzed are from BSP, 20 (33 per cent) out of 24 candidates analyzed are from JMM. 5 (25 per cent) out of 12 candidates analyzed from Congress, 5 (42 per cent) out of 12 candidates analyzed from AJSU Party and 4 (67 per cent) out of 6 candidates analyzed from AJSU Party and RJD. 2 out of 2 candidates (100 per cent) analyzed have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
Talking about serious criminal cases, among the major parties, 12 out of 32 candidates analyzed from BJP (38 per cent), 5 out of 24 candidates analyzed from BSP, 5 out of 20 candidates analyzed from JMM, 5 (25 percent), 4 (33 percent) out of 12 candidates analyzed from Congress, 4 (67 percent) out of 6 candidates analyzed from AJSU Party and 2 analyzed from RJD. 2 (100 per cent) of the candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
how how crime
– 12 candidates have declared cases related to crimes against women. Out of 12 candidates, 1 candidate has declared charges related to rape (IPC section 376).
– 3 candidates have declared cases related to murder (IPC section 302) against themselves.
– 34 candidates have declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC section 307 and BNS section 109) against themselves.
red alert constituency
Out of 38 constituencies in Jharkhand, 28 (74 per cent) are red alert constituencies. Red alert constituencies are those where three or more candidates contesting the elections have declared criminal cases against themselves.
Whose status is so much?
The share of assets among the candidates contesting in the second phase of Jharkhand Assembly elections 2024 is as follows:
Value of property (in Rs.) ——————— Number of candidates – Percentage of candidates
Rs 5 crore and above ————- 38 ————————— 7 percent
Rs 2 Crore to Rs 5 Crore ————— 42 ————————— — 8 percent
Rs 50 lakh to Rs 2 crore ————- 130 ————————- 25 percent
Rs 10 lakh to Rs 50 lakh ———— 176 ————————— 4 percent
Less than Rs 10 lakh ———————— 136 ——————– ——–26 percent
millionaire candidate
– Out of 522 candidates, 127 (24 percent) are crorepatis.
If we talk about party-wise crorepati candidates, among the major parties, 23 (72 percent) out of 32 candidates of BJP, 18 (90 percent) out of 20 candidates of JMM, 10 (83 percent) out of 12 candidates of Congress, AJSU Party 5 out of 6 candidates (83 percent), 4 out of 24 candidates of BSP (17 percent) and 2 out of 2 candidates of RJD (100 percent). Have declared assets worth more than Rs 1 crore.
If we look at the average assets, the average assets of each candidate is Rs 2.53 crore.
– Party wise average assets include average assets per candidate for 2 RJD candidates is Rs 24.18 crore, average assets of 6 AJSU candidates analyzed is Rs 9.20 crore, average assets of 20 JMM candidates is Rs 7.48 crore, average assets of 32 BJP candidates is Rs 5.05 The average asset of 12 Congress candidates is Rs 3.10 crore and the average asset of 24 BSP candidates is Rs 67 lakh.
– Among the top three rich candidates are – SP’s Akil Akhtar from Pakur constituency, whose total assets as per his affidavit are more than Rs 402 crore. After this is Niranjan Rai, independent candidate from Dhanwar seat of Giridih. He has declared his assets to be more than Rs 137 crore. At third place is Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) candidate from Dhanwar seat, Mohammad Danish, who has declared his assets worth more than Rs 32 crore.
poor candidate
There is also a candidate who has declared his assets as zero. Alian Hansda, a Jharkhand People’s Party candidate contesting from Maheshpur (ST) constituency, has declared zero assets. There are three candidates with the least assets – Rajeshwar Mahato, an independent candidate from Ranchi’s Silli seat, who has declared his assets to be Rs 100 and does not have any immovable property. After this is Jitendra Oraon who is an independent candidate from Khijri (ST) of Ranchi. He has declared his assets as Rs 2,500 and does not own any immovable property. At third place is Anil Bauri, SUCI (C) candidate from Jharia seat of Dhanbad district, who has declared assets worth Rs 10,000 and he also does not have any immovable property.
Some more information
– Educational details of the candidates: 247 (47 per cent) candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5th and 12th class, while 234 (45 per cent) candidates have declared their educational qualification to be graduation or above. 6 candidates are diploma holders. 34 candidates have declared themselves only literate and one candidate has declared himself illiterate.
Age Details: 220 (42 per cent) candidates have declared their age between 25 to 40 years, while 238 (46 per cent) candidates have declared their age between 41 to 60 years. There are 64 (12 percent) candidates who have declared their age between 61 to 80 years.
– How many women candidates: 55 (11 percent) women candidates are contesting in the second phase of elections.
According to ADR, the Supreme Court directions have had no impact on political parties in the selection of candidates for the second phase of Jharkhand Assembly elections as they have again followed their old practice of giving tickets to about 28 per cent of candidates with criminal cases. . All the major parties contesting in the second phase of Jharkhand elections have given 25 per cent to 100 per cent tickets to candidates who have declared criminal cases against themselves. As per these mandatory guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court in its directions dated February 13, 2020, the reasons for such selection should include the merit, achievements and qualifications of the candidate concerned. During the two recently held state assembly elections in 2024, it was observed that political parties gave baseless and baseless reasons like popularity of the person, good social work, cases being politically motivated etc. These are not solid reasons for fielding candidates with tainted backgrounds. This data clearly shows that political parties have no interest in reforming the electoral system.
