Eighty-nine percent of Jharkhand’s newly elected MLAs are ‘crorepatis’, and among them, Congress’ Rameshwar Oraon is the richest with total assets worth Rs 42.20 crore, according to a published report Monday.
The Jharkhand Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) analyzed the affidavits of 80 of the 81 winning candidates and found that 71 newly elected MLAs in 2024 are ‘crorepatis’, 20% more than the many of these elected legislators. in 2019.
Of the 81 MLAs elected five years ago, 56 were “crorepatis”, and there were 41 in 2014, according to the report.
Of the 71 crorepati MLAs this year, 28 are from JMM, 20 from BJP, 14 from Congress, four from RJD, two from CPI(ML) Liberation and one each from LJP (Ram Vilas), JD(U) and AJSU. Party.
The JMM won 34 seats in the Assembly, and its allies the Congress 16, the RJD four and the CPI(ML) Liberation in two constituencies.
On the other hand, BJP won 21 assembly segments, and its partners LJP (Ram Vilas), JD(U) and AJSU Party got one each.
The average assets per winning candidate in the 2024 Jharkhand Assembly elections is Rs 6.90 crore, and the same was Rs 3.87 crore in the 2019 elections.
Among the winning candidates, Lohardaga Congress MLA Rameshwar Oraon is the richest with total assets of Rs 42.20 crore, the report said.
BJP’s Kushwaha Shashi Bhushan Mehta, who won the Panki constituency, is the second richest candidate with total assets of Rs 32.15 crore, while RJD’s Sanjay Prasad Yadav, who won the Godda seat, is the third on the list with total assets of Rs 29.59. crore, according to him.
Jairam Kumar Mahato of the Jharkhand Loktantrik Krantikari Morcha (JLKM), who emerged victorious from the Dumri seat, has the lowest assets worth around Rs 2.55 lakh.
As many as 14 winning candidates declared liabilities of Rs 1 crore and above, the report said.
A total of 42 MLAs have been re-elected and the average growth in their assets is Rs 2.71 crore in the last five years, it said.
Forty-three elected lawmakers have declared criminal cases against themselves, among which 36 lawmakers are facing serious criminal cases, according to the report.
According to the report, 12 of the 34 winning MP candidates of the JMM and 13 of the 21 winning MP candidates of the BJP declared that they were facing criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
Similarly, eight elected Congress Assembly candidates, four from RJD, two from CPI-ML Liberation and one from AJSU party, one from LJP (RV), JD-U and JLKM are also facing criminal charges , he added.
As many as 28 winning candidates declared their qualification to be between class 8 and class 12, while 50 are graduates and above, one winner is a diploma holder and another declared himself barely literate.
The number of winning female candidates in state legislative elections increased from 10 to 12.