At least 22 UP ministers face criminal cases ADR
New Delhi Mar 26 PTI Of the 45 newly sworn-in Uttar Pradesh ministers 22 have declared criminal cases against themselves and most of them face serious charges poll rights body ADR said on Saturday Uttar Pradesh Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms ADR have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 45 of the total 53 ministers including the chief minister The affidavits of Sanjay Nishad and Jitin Prasada were unavailable for analysis on the election commissions website at the time of bringing out this report while details of ministers JPS Rathore Narendra Kashyap Dinesh Pratap Singh Dayashankar Mishra Dayalu Jaswant Saini and Danish Azad Ansari were not analysed as they are currently not members of either the state assembly or the legislative council According to the ADR report 22 49 per cent ministers have declared criminal cases against themselves and 20 44 per cent ministers have declared serious criminal cases against themselves Of the 45 ministers analysed 39 87 per cent are crorepatis and their average assets are pegged at Rs 9 crore As per his affidavit Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh from Tiloi constituency owns the highest declared total assets worth Rs 5807 crore and Dharamveer Singh an MLC at Rs 4291 lakh is the minister with the lowest declared total assets Twenty seven ministers have declared liabilities Rakesh Sachan of Bhognipur constituency has liabilities to the tune of Rs 817 crore the highest among the ministers the report said It said nine 20 per cent ministers have declared their educational qualification to be between Classes 8 to 12 while 36 80 per cent ministers are graduates and beyond Twenty 44 per cent ministers have declared their age to be between 30 and 50 years while 25 56 per cent ministers stated that they were between 51 and 70 years old Of the 45 ministers analysed five 11 per cent are women PTI UZM CJ CJ
New Delhi Mar 26 PTI Of the 45 newly sworn-in Uttar Pradesh ministers 22 have declared criminal cases against themselves and most of them face serious charges poll rights body ADR said on Saturday Uttar Pradesh Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms ADR have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 45 of the total 53 ministers including the chief minister The affidavits of Sanjay Nishad and Jitin Prasada were unavailable for analysis on the election commissions website at the time of bringing out this report while details of ministers JPS Rathore Narendra Kashyap Dinesh Pratap Singh Dayashankar Mishra Dayalu Jaswant Saini and Danish Azad Ansari were not analysed as they are currently not members of either the state assembly or the legislative council According to the ADR report 22 49 per cent ministers have declared criminal cases against themselves and 20 44 per cent ministers have declared serious criminal cases against themselves Of the 45 ministers analysed 39 87 per cent are crorepatis and their average assets are pegged at Rs 9 crore As per his affidavit Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh from Tiloi constituency owns the highest declared total assets worth Rs 5807 crore and Dharamveer Singh an MLC at Rs 4291 lakh is the minister with the lowest declared total assets Twenty seven ministers have declared liabilities Rakesh Sachan of Bhognipur constituency has liabilities to the tune of Rs 817 crore the highest among the ministers the report said It said nine 20 per cent ministers have declared their educational qualification to be between Classes 8 to 12 while 36 80 per cent ministers are graduates and beyond Twenty 44 per cent ministers have declared their age to be between 30 and 50 years while 25 56 per cent ministers stated that they were between 51 and 70 years old Of the 45 ministers analysed five 11 per cent are women PTI UZM CJ CJ
