BSF to Delhi HC -Allegation of poor quality false
Border Security Force (BSF) told the Delhi High Court that the allegation of one of its jawans on social media regarding poor quality food being served to its troopers posted along the LoC was false as no complaint was ever made.
On thursday, in an affidavit filed by the BSF said, that soon after the video went viral on social media, senior officials visited the concerned battalion, but no complaint regarding poor food was brought to their notice.
Brushing aside allegations levelled by the Jawan, the BSF said a very transparent system was in place to ensure quality diet for the troopers since their health and safety is a prime responsibility. It also said, a detailed Staff Court of Inquiry has been ordered to enquire into the allegations made by the jawan through video and same has been concluded and further action will be taken in accordance with the law.
The BSF response came in the backdrop of a PIL seeking direction to MHA to submit a status report with respect quality of food supplied to all paramilitary forces in India.
Jaitley leaves for UK
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today left for London to represent the Indian government at a historic reception hosted by Queen Elizabeth II to launch the UK-India Year of Culture 2017. Bilateral talks with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond are among the ministerial meetings on Jaitley’s agenda, during which a wide range of issues will be discussed. The extradition of embattled liquor baron, Vijay Mallya, from the UK to India may be among the topics that come up during the discussions. Mr Jaitley will also hold a series of meetings with UK-based investors and CEOs during the five-day visit.
On Sunday the Finance Minister will be the chief guest at a reception organised by the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, British Council and High Commission of India to celebrate UK India Year of Culture. Mr Jaitley will then attend the market opening ceremony of the London Stock Exchange on February 27 followed by a round-table with investors, issuers of Masala Bonds and tech experts, among others. He will then address CEOs and senior business leaders from the India-UK sphere at an event.
Phase 5 Uttar Pradesh Analysis of Candidates
Uttar Pradesh, canvassing for fifth phase of assembly elections is in full swing. Star campaigners from all major political parties have very hectic schedule today in most of the poll bound districts. A total of 52 constituencies spread over 11 districts of Tarai and eastern regions of the state will go to poll on February 27.
Districts covered in this phase are Amethi, Sultanpur, Faizabad, Ambedkarnagar, Baharaich, Shravasti, Balrampur, Gonda, Basti, Siddharthnagar and Sant Kabir. A total of 618 candidates including 45 women are in the fray.
Our correspondent reports that with only two days are left for campaigning, all major political parties have put their maximum strengths to woo the voters. Rallies and public meetings are being addressed today by the leaders of different political parties.
The BJP has accused Samajwadi Party for weakening Lokayukta and other institutions meant to check corruption. Samajwadi Party President and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said in Faizabad that BJP was trying to ignore the issue of development in the campaigning. BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing his party’s Parivartan rally today at Gonda district. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be addressing rallies at Baharaich, Basti and Balrampur districts.
BJP president Amit Shah will address public meetings at Azamgarh, Mau and Gorakhpur districts.
BJP has expelled its 18 leaders and workers from Allahabad, Kaushambi, Ballia, Azamgarh Mau Basti and Deoria districts for their anti party activities.
BJP has expelled its 18 leaders and workers from Allahabad, Kaushambi, Ballia, Azamgarh Mau Basti and Deoria districts for their anti party activities.
The Election Commission has replaced district magistrates of three districts of Rampur, Jaunpur and Hamirpur. The Commission had received complaints against present incumbents about biased and partial working.
From: ADR India <adr@adrindia.org> on Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:02:23 Add to address bookTo: You & 2 others | See Details
Dear Friends,
The Uttar Pradesh Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 612 out 617 candidates from 75 political parties, including 6 national parties, 4 state parties, 65 unrecognized parties and 220 independent candidates, who are contesting in the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections to be held on 27Th February, 2017. The details of candidates who have not been analysed are given below:
S.No | Name | Party | Constituency | District |
1. | VIJAY PRATAP | IND | GAURA | GONDA |
2. | RAKESH PRATAP SINGH | SP | GAURIGANJ | AMETHI |
3. | KHALID KHAN | BSP | KAISERGANJ | BAHRAICH |
4. | RAM KARAN ARYA | SP | MAHADEWA (SC) | BASTI |
5. | PRAMOD KUMAR | RLD | RUDHAULI | BASTI |
For Full Reports in Hindi and English click here: http://adrindia.org/content/analysis-criminal-and-financial-background-details-contesting-candidates-uttar-pradesh-2
Criminal Background
- Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of 612 candidates analyzed, 117 (19%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.
- Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 96 (16%) candidates have declared serious criminal cases, including cases related to murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping, crimes against women etc.
- Candidates with cases related to murder: 9 candidates have declared cases related to murder (Indian Penal Code Section-302).
- Candidates with cases related to Attempt to Murder: 24 candidates have declared cases related to attempt to murder (Indian Penal Code Section-307).
- Candidates with cases related to Crimes against Women: 8 candidates have declared cases like assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty (Indian Penal Code Section-354), rape (IPC Section-376) and husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty (IPC Section-498A).
- Candidates with cases related to Kidnapping: 4 candidates have declared cases related to kidnapping for ransom, etc. (Indian Penal Code Section- 364, 365).
- Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases: 21(41%) out of 51 candidates from Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), 23 (45%) out of 51 candidates from Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP), 8 (27%) out of 30 candidates from Rashtriya Lok Dal(RLD),17(41%) out of 42 candidates from Samajwadi Party ( SP),3(21%) out of 14 candidates from Indian National Congress(INC), and 19(9%) out of 220 Independent candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
- Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 19(37%) out of 51 candidates from BSP, 14 (28%) out of 51 candidates from BJP, 7 (23%) out of 30 candidates from RLD, 12(29%) out of 42 candidates from SP, 2 (14%) out of 14 candidates from INC and 17(8%) out of 220 Independent candidates have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
- Red Alert Constituencies*: There are 22 constituencies in the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections having 3 or more candidates with declared criminal cases. *Red Alert Constituencies are those which have 3 or more candidates with criminal cases contesting elections.
Financial Background
- Share of wealth among candidates : The share of wealth amongst the candidates contesting in the fifth phase of assembly elections Uttar Pradesh is as follows:
Value of assets (Rs.) | No. of candidates | Percentage of Candidates |
Rs.5 cr and above | 51 | 8% |
Rs.2 crores to 5 crores | 80 | 13% |
Rs. 50 lakhs to 2 crores | 102 | 17% |
Rs.10 lakhs to 50 lakhs | 195 | 32% |
less than Rs. 10 lakhs | 184 | 30% |
Table: Share of wealth amongst contesting candidates
- High asset candidates: The 3 richest candidates contesting in the fifth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections are given below:
S.No. | Name | District | Constituency | Party Name | Movable Assets (Rs) | Immovable Assets (Rs) | Total Assets (Rs) | PAN Given |
1 | Ajay Pratap Singh | GONDA | COLONELGANJ | BJP | 2,79,62,192 | 46,26,00,000 | 49,05,62,192 49 Crore+ | Y |
2 | Ameeta Singh | AMETHI | AMETHI | INC | 8,60,81,633 | 28,16,50,000 | 36,77,31,633 36 Crore+ | Y |
3 | Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh | AMETHI | TILOI | BJP | 4,31,70,454 | 28,39,59,000 | 32,71,29,454 32 Crore+ | Y |
Table: Top three candidates with highest declared assets
- Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 612 candidates, 168 (27%) are crorepatis.
- Party wise Crorepati Candidates: 43(84%) out of 51 candidates from BSP, 38(75%) out of 51 candidates from BJP, 32 (76%) out of 42 candidates from SP, 7(50%)out of 14 candidates from INC, 9(30%) out of 30 candidates from RLD and 14(6%) out of 220 Independent candidates have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore.
- Average assets: The average of assets per candidate contesting in the fifth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections is Rs 1.56 Crores.
- Party wise average assets: Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 14 INC candidates is Rs.4.40 crores, 51 BJP candidates is Rs 4.64 crores, 51 BSP candidates have average assets of Rs 4.16 crores, 42 SP candidates have average assets worth Rs 3.48 crores, 30 RLD candidates have average assets worth Rs 2.20 crores, and 220 Independent candidates have average assets of Rs. 44.96 lakhs.
- Zero asset candidate: There are no candidates who have declared zero assets in their self sworn affidavits.
- Low asset candidates: The three candidates with lowest assets (excluding candidate with zero asssets) are as follows:
S.No. | Name | District | Constituency | Party Name | Movable Assets (Rs) | Immovable Assets (Rs) | Total Assets (Rs) | PAN Given |
1 | Ramesh Kumar | AMBEDKAR NAGAR | ALAPUR (SC) | Uttar Pradesh Republican Party | 1,000 | 0 | 1,000 1 Thou+ | N |
2 | Radheshyam | BASTI | KAPTANGANJ | IND | 10,290 | 0 | 10,290 10 Thou+ | N |
3 | Indrajeet | BAHRAICH | BALHA (SC) | IND | 12,000* | 0 | 12,000 12 Thou+ | Y |
Table: Candidates with declared lowest assets
* Candidates who have not provided the total in their affidavits, it has been calculated on the basis of details provided by them in the same
- Candidates with high liabilities: The top three candidates with highest liabilities are as given below:
S.No. | Name | District | Constituency | Party Name | Total Assets(Rs) | Liabilities (Rs) | Disputed liabilities (Rs) | PAN Given |
1 | Sri Rakesh Srivastav | BASTI | BASTI SADAR | IND | 16,49,93,996 16 Crore+ | 6,18,00,000 6 Crore+ | 0 | Y |
2 | Smt Rubab Sayeda | BAHRAICH | BAHARAICH | SP | 9,93,12,472 9 Crore+ | 5,94,00,000 5 Crore+ | 0 | Y |
3 | Santosh Kumar | GONDA | COLONELGANJ | BSP | 4,61,29,320 4 Crore+ | 4,36,17,000 4 Crore+ | 0 | Y |
Table: Top three candidates with high liabilities
# disputed liabilities
- Undeclared PAN: A total of 156 (25.5%) candidates have not declared their PAN details.
- Candidates with high income as declared in the ITR*: Only 3 candidates have declared total annual income of more than Rs 50 lakhs. The top 3 candidates with highest income are as given below:
S.No. | Name | Party | Constituency | District | Total Asset (Rs) | The financial year for which the last income tax return has been filed by candidate | Total income shown by candidate in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs) | Self income shown by candidate in ITR (Rs) |
1 | Ritesh | BSP | JALALPUR | AMBEDKAR NAGAR | 21,08,13,416 21 Crore+ | 2015-2016 | 59,68,608 59 Lacs+ | 59,68,608 59 Lacs+ |
2 | Yash Bhadra Singh Monu | RLD | ISAULI | SULTANPUR | 11,39,14,141 11 Crore+ | 2016-2017 | 54,76,170 54 Lacs+ | 34,80,927 34 Lacs+ |
3 | Ameeta Singh | INC | AMETHI | AMETHI | 36,77,31,633 36 Crore+ | 2015-2016 | 51,45,290 51 Lacs+ | 11,27,660 11 Lacs+ |
Table: Top 3 candidates with high income as declared in ITR
*Total income includes income of self, spouse and dependents
- Candidates who have not declared Income Tax Details*: 365(60%) out of 612 candidates have not declared income tax details.
* Some candidates may be exempted from filing Income Tax Return
- Candidates with high Assets who have not declared Income Tax Details*: 18 candidates with assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore have not declared Income Tax details. The top three candidates with highest assets who have not declared their IT returns are as given below:
S.No. | Name | District | Constituency | Party Name | Total Income (Rs) | Total Assets (Rs) | PAN Given | Self Income |
1 | Ajay Pratap Singh | GONDA | COLONELGANJ | BJP | 0 | 49,05,62,192 49 Crore+ | Y | ITR not filed |
2 | Mashhoor Alam | SANT KABIR NAGAR | KHALILABAD | BSP | 0 | 15,75,68,642 15 Crore+ | Y | ITR not filed |
3 | Rustam Ali Saida | BAHRAICH | BAHARAICH | NCP | 0 | 6,00,23,220 6 Crore+ | Y | ITR not filed |
Table: Top three candidates with highest assets who have not declared ITR details
* Some candidates may be exempted from filing Income Tax Returns
Other Background Details
- Education details of candidates: 266 (43%) candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5th and 12th, while 285 (47%) candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. 38 candidates have declared themselves to be just literates and 9 candidates have declared to be illiterate.
- Age details of candidates: 429(70%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 and 50 years while 181 (29.5%) candidates have declared their age to be between 51 and 80 years. 2 candidates have not disclosed their age details.
Gender details of candidates: 43 (7%) female candidates are contesting in fifth phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly election this year.
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