25(100%) Ministers in Rajasthan Cabinet 2018 are crorepati.

Rajasthan Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 25 Ministers including Chief Minister from Rajasthan State Assembly 2018. 5

Summary and Highlights

Criminal Background

·        Ministers with Criminal Cases:   9(36%) ministers have declared criminal cases against themselves.

·        Ministers with Serious Criminal Cases:   5(20%) ministers have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

·       Ministers with declared cases related to murder: 1 Minister, Parsadi Lal of INC who contested from Lalsot Constituency of Dausa district, declared 1 charge related to murder (IPC Section 302).

·       Ministers with declared cases related to attempt to murder: 1 Minister, Ashok of INC who contested from Hindoli Constituency of Bundi district, declared 2 charges related to attempt to murder (IPC Section 307).

Financial Background

·       Crorepati Ministers: Out of the 25 ministers analysed, all 25 (100%) are crorepatis.

·       Average Assets: The average assets of 25 ministers analysed is Rs 15.48 crores.

·        Ministers with Highest Assets: The minister with the highest declared total assets is Anjana Udailal from Nimbahera constituency with assets worth Rs.107.87 crores.The top five ministers with highest declared assets are:                                                     

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Anjana Udailal	Chittorgargh	Nimbahera	INC	55,89,86,373	51,97,60,000	1,07,87,46,373  107 Crore+	Y
2	Vishvendra Singh	Bharatpur	Deeg Kumher	INC	10,68,65,948	93,84,00,000	1,04,52,65,948  104 Crore+	Y
3	Rajendra Singh Yadav	Jaipur	Kotputli	INC	12,93,84,115	31,09,14,000	44,02,98,115   44 Crore+	Y
4	Pramod Bhaya	Baran	Anta	INC	9,86,13,117	17,44,93,800	27,31,06,917   27 Crore+	Y
5	Ashok	Bundi	Hindoli	INC	16,99,83,668	9,13,27,500	26,13,11,168   26 Crore+	Y

Table: Top 5 Ministers with Highest Assets

·        Liabilities: A total of 19 out of 25 ministers analysed have declared liabilities. The details of the top 5 ministers are given below:

S.No.	Name	District	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Ashok	Bundi	Hindoli	INC	26,13,11,168   26 Crore+	21,41,92,200   21 Crore+	Y
2	Rajendra Singh Yadav	Jaipur	Kotputli	INC	44,02,98,115   44 Crore+	14,20,84,332   14 Crore+	Y
3	Anjana Udailal	Chittorgargh	Nimbahera	INC	1,07,87,46,373   107 Crore+	12,72,31,887   12 Crore+	Y
4	Pramod Bhaya	Baran	Anta	INC	27,31,06,917   27 Crore+	7,71,96,819   7 Crore+	Y
5	Lalchand Kataria	Jaipur	Jhotwara	INC	8,86,01,000   8 Crore+	5,37,22,000   5 Crore+	Y

Table: Top 5 ministers with Declared Liabilities

·        Ministers with High Income:  3 out of 25 ministers analysed have declared their total annual income above Rs. 50 lacs. The details of these ministers are given below:

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Constituency	District	Total Asset (Rs)	Self –Source of Income	Spouse’s Source of Income	The financial year for which the last income tax return has been filed by minister	Total income shown by minister in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self– income shown by minister in ITR (Rs)
1	Anjana Udailal	INC	Nimbahera	Chittorgargh	1,07,87,46,373  107 Crore+	Business	Income From Other Sources, Interest , Profits & Agricultural Income	2017-2018	2,35,78,955  2 Crore+	1,97,23,555  1 Crore+
2	Shanti Kumar Dhariwal	INC	Kota North	Kota	6,57,72,599  6 Crore+	Rent & Pension	–	2017-2018	51,67,250  51 Lacs+	51,67,250  51 Lacs+
3	Ashok	INC	Hindoli	Bundi	26,13,11,168 26 Crore+	Mining Business and MLA Salary	Dental Profession	2017-2018	50,82,175  50 Lacs+	42,32,175  42 Lacs+

Table: Top 3 Ministers with high income 

Other Background details (Education, Gender, Age)

·       Ministers’ Education:  8(32%) ministers have declared their educational qualification to be between 10^th– 12^th pass while 17 (68%) ministers have declared having educational qualification of graduate or above.

·       Ministers’ Age:  A total of 10(40%) ministers have declared their age to be between 31-50 years while 15(60%) ministers have declared their age to be between 51- 80 years.

·       Woman Minister: Out of 25 ministers, only 1 is awoman.