Tripura Election Watch (TEW) analysed affidavits of all MLAs of Tripura 2013 Assembly Elections
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Tripura
Election Watch (TEW) has analysed affidavits of all 60 newly elected MLAs of Tripura
2013 Assembly Elections. Out of the 60 newly elected MLAs, 49 are from CPI(M),
10 are from INC and 1 is from CPI.
Financial:
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Crorepati
MLAs: Out of these 60 MLAs, 8
(or 13%) are crorepatis. In 2008, there were 5% crorepati MLAs (3
out of 60 MLAs in 2008).
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Average
Assets: The Average Asset per MLA in Tripura Assembly
Elections 2013 is Rs. 53.61 lakhs.
In 2008 Tripura Assembly Elections for the 60 MLAs analysed the average asset per
MLA was Rs. 29.98 Lakhs.
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Party-wise
Average Assets: Among
major parties, the average asset per MLA for CPI(M) is Rs. 27.59 lakhs
and for INC is Rs. 1.83 crores. In 2008 the average asset per MLA for
CPI(M) was Rs. 14.86 Lakhs and for INC it was Rs. 1.052 crores.
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Highest Asset
MLAs: The
top three MLAs with highest declared assets are (in decreasing order): Dilip Sarkar of INC from Badarghat (SC)
constituency with Rs. 4.58 crores worth of assets and Pranajit Singha Roy
of INC from Radhakishorpur constituency with assets worth Rs. 4.03 crores
and Biswabandhu
Sen of INC from Dharmanagar constituency with assets worth Rs
2.25 crores. From CPI (M) the MLA with highest assets is Jitendra
Choudhari from Manu (ST) constituency with assets of Rs 1.55
crores. (Please find later in
the report the list of top 20 MLAs with highest declared assets who are the Tripura 2013 Assembly Elections)
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Low
Asset MLAs:
A
total of 11 MLAs out of 60 analysed have declared assets less
than Rs.
10 Lakh.
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Lowest
Asset MLAs:
Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl
of INC from Karamchara constituency has declared the lowest assets of Rs
6 thousand followed by Niranjoy Tripura of CPI(M)
from Chawmanu (ST) constituency has declared assets worth Rs 88 thousand and
Priyamani
Debbarma of CPI(M) from Karbook (ST) constituency with assets worth
Rs
1.10 lakhs.
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Liabilities: A total of 9
MLAs out of 60 analyzed have declared liabilities of Rs.
10 lakhs or above.
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Highest
Liability MLAs:
The top three MLAs with highest declared liabilities
are(in decreasing order): Jitendra Chaudhuri
a CPI(M) MLA
from Manu (ST) constituency has declared the highest liabilities of Rs.
28.24 lakhs followed by Rajendra Reang of CPI(M) from
Kanchanpur (ST) constituency with assets of Rs 20.96 lakhs and
Bijoy
Lakshmi Singha of CPI(M) from Kamalpur constituency with assets
worth Rs 15.03 lakhs. From INC the MLA with highest
liabilities is Birajit Sinha from Kailshahar constituency
with liabilities worth Rs 14.56 lakhs.
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Undeclared
PAN: 29 out of all 60 (48%) MLAs in the
Tripura 2013 Assembly Elections have not declared their PAN details. In 2008,
51 MLAs (85% of 60 analyzed) had not declared their PAN details.
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Undeclared PAN Party-wise: 27 out of 49 MLAs of CPI(M) have not declared their PAN. Similarly, for
INC 2 out of 10 MLAs have not declared PAN details.
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MLAs
who declared Income:
9 MLAs have declared an income in
their ITR. (Almost all other MLAs have claimed to be
exempted from paying Income Tax under Section 10(26) of the Income Tax Act).
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Highest Income MLAs: Out of
the 9 MLAs who have declared an income, the top three MLAs with the highest
income are as follows: Pranajit Singha
Roy of INC from Radhakishorpur constituency with total income worth
Rs
30.38Lacs. He is followed by Birajit Sinha of INC from Kailashahar constituency with
total income of Rs 7.69 lakhs
and Ratan lal Nath of
INC from Mohanpur constituency with total income worth Rs 7.66 lakhs. From CPI(M) the MLA with declared highest
income is Bijita Nath
from Bagbassa constituencies with income of Rs 2.63 lakhs.
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Chances of Winning based on Assets: Among the candidates with assets of Rs. 1 crore and above 8 have got
elected out of 16, which means that if a candidate has Rs. 1 crore and more the
chances of his winning the election is 50%. But chances of winning drops to
only 6% if a candidate has assets less than Rs. 5 Lakhs, as only 7 candidates
out of 108 with assets less than Rs. 5 lakhs have managed to win their
elections.
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Lakhpati candidates win over
Crorepati candidates: In 7 constituencies, Lakhpati candidates emerged as winners, defeating
higher asset Crorepati candidates in their respective constituencies.
Criminal:
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MLAs with declared criminal cases: Out of 60 MLAs, 6 MLAs (or 10 %) have declared criminal
cases against themselves. All
the 6 MLAs with declared criminal cases are from INC. In 2008 assembly
elections, 5% of the MLAs (3 out of 60 MLAs) had declared criminal cases
against themselves.
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MLAs with Serious Criminal Cases: Out of the total 6 MLAs who have declared
criminal cases,5 have
declared serious criminal cases like murder, attempt to murder.
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MLAs against whom charges have been framed: Out of these 6 MLAs with self-declared
criminal cases, charges have been framed against 4 MLAs in various
cases. These are Ratan Lal Nath (INC), Gopal Chandra Roy (INC), Birajit Sinha(INC),
and Biswabandhu Sen (INC).
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MLAs with Heinous & Violent Crime Cases:The top three MLAs from major parties who have
declared maximum number of serious criminal
cases of murder, attempt to murder etc against them are:(1)Birajit Sinha (of INC from Kailashahar constituency) has
declared one charge related to murder.(2). Ratan lal Nath(of INC from Mohanpur constituency) has declared
1charge related to attempt to
murder (3) Gopal
Chandra Roy of INC from Banamalipur constituency has declared one charge related
to attempt
to murder.
Other Background details (Education, Gender,
Age):
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MLAs’
Education: A total of 28
(47%) MLAs (out of 60 analyzed) are graduates or have higher degrees in the Tripura
2013 Assembly Elections. 20 MLAs (33%)are 10th Pass or
below.
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MLAs’
Age: A total of 3
MLAs, out of all the 60, are of 70 years and above. 1 MLA is aged 40 or
less
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Women MLAs: Out of 60 MLAs, 5 (8%) women
are the Tripura 2013 Assembly Elections. In 2008 there were 3 women
MLAs (5% of the 60 analyzed).
Asset Comparison of Re-elected MLAs:
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MLAs
elected Again: 43 MLAs have been re-elected from the 2008 Tripura Assembly to
the Tripura Assembly 2012.
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Average Assets in 2008 Elections: The average assets of these 43 re-elected MLAs fielded by various
parties in 2008 was Rs 25,15,729(25.15 Lakhs).
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Average Assets in 2013 Elections: The average assets of these 43 re-elected MLAs now in 2013
is Rs
48,93,386(48.93 Lakhs).
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Average Asset growth in 5 years(2008-2013):The average asset growth for these 43 re-elected MLAs, between the Tripura Assembly
Elections of 2008 and 2013, is Rs 23,77,656 (23.77
Lakhs).
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Percentage growth in 5 years (2008-2013):Average percentage
growth in assets for these 43 re-elected MLAs is 95%
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Highest growth
In Assets in 5 years (2008-2013): Dilip Sarkar (of INC from Badharghat) have
increased by Rs 2.03 crore,
from Rs 2.54 crore in 2008 to Rs 4.58 crore in 2013. Sudip Roy Barman (of INC from Agartala) have risen by Rs 1.38 crore, from Rs 69.39
Lakhs in 2008 to Rs 2.07 crore in 2013 (In 2008, Sudip
Roy Burman didn’t provide the information related to the value of 1 Motor
vehicle). Assets of Gopal Chandra Roy (also a INC MLA from Banamalipur) have
increased by Rs 92.40 Lakhs,
from Rs 54.22 Lakhs in 2008 to Rs 1.46 crore in 2013.
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Highest Percentage growth in 5 years (2008-2013): The highest percentage
increase (8988%) in assets has been declared by Subodh
Das of CPI (M) from Panisagar constituency. Subodh Das’s assets
increased from Rs. 3 Thousands* in 2008 to Rs 3.14* Lakhs in 2013. Keshab
Debbarma of CPI (M) from Golaghati (SC) constituency falls at
second position with 5945% increase in assets; his
assets have grown from Rs 61* Thousands in 2008 to Rs 37.35* Lakhs in 2013. Aghore
Debbarma of CPI (M) from Khowai constituency falls at third
position with 5397% increase in assets; his assets have grown from Rs
66* Thousands in 2008 to Rs 36.51* Lakhs in 2013. (* this
figure contains only that sum of money that has been explicitly provided in the
affidavits, this figure doesn’t include the value of assets for which value
wasn’t provided in the affidavits)
Asset decrease in 5 years (2008-2013): 6 MLAs have
reported decrease in assets in 2013 as compared to
value of assets in 2008. Among them the highest decrease has been shown by Padma
Kumar Debbarma (83% decline
in assets, Rs 9.11 Lakhs in 2008 to Rs 1.58 lakhs in 2013) of CPI(M) from Ramchandraghat
(ST) constituency, Mano Ranjan Acharjee (71% reduction in assets, from Rs 5.33 lakhs in 2008 election to Rs 1.54
lakhs in 2013) of CPI(M) from Amarpur, and Basudev Majumder (40% decline in assets, Rs 22.20 Lakhs
in 2008 to Rs 13.31 lakhs in 2013) of CPI(M) from Belonia constituency. (* this figure contains only that sum of money
that has been explicitly provided in the affidavits, this figure doesn’t
include the value of assets for which value wasn’t provided in the affidavits)
Please find enclosed the following reports that contain the analysis of
self-declared information provided by the MLAs who have been elected in
the Tripura Assembly Election 2013:
- MLAs Report containing the analysis of MLAs' self declared attributes such as Financial Assets, PAN details , Criminal records, Education, Age, Gender and Growth of Assets during 5 years (2008-2013)
- An Integrated Report containing the comparison of the various aspects of MLAs' attributes who have got elected in the recently held Assembly Elections in all the three states of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura
Contact Details
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Trilochan Sastry
IIM
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IIM
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