Dear Friends,

The Odisha Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 354 out of 356 candidates. 

For the complete report, please go to: https://adrindia.org/content/odisha-assembly-elections-2019-%E2%80%93-phase-iii-analysis-criminal-background-financial-education

OEW and ADR have not analysed 2 candidates as their affidavits were either badly scanned or complete affidavits were not uploaded on the ECI website. The details of these candidates is given below:  

S.No	Name	District	Constituency	Party
1	Sunil Kumar Agrawal	Khordha	Bhubaneswar Central	IND
2	Manoranjan Mishra	Deogarh	Deogarh	IND

Table: List of Candidates not analysed

Summary and Highlights

Criminal Background

 ·        Candidates with Criminal Cases: Out of 354 candidates analyzed, 119 (34%) candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves.

 ·         Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases: 101(29%) have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

 ·         Party wise Candidates with Criminal Cases: Among the major parties, 20(48%) out of 42 candidates analysed from BJD, 30(71%) out of 42 candidates analysed from BJP, 19 (46%) out of 41 candidates analysed from INC, and 5 (17%) out of 30 candidates analysed from BSP have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits. 

·         Party wise Candidates with Serious Criminal Cases:  Among the major parties, 13(31%) out of 42 candidates analysed from BJD, 25(60%) out of 42 candidates analysed from BJP, 18(44%) out of 41 candidates analysed from INC, and 5(17%) out of 30 candidates analysed from BSP have declared serious criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.

·         Red Alert Constituencies*: There are 25 Out of 42 constituencies in the Odisha assembly elections, Phase III, 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 

·         High asset candidates:  The details of top 3 candidates with highest declared assets, contesting in the  Odisha  Assembly Elections Phase III  are given below:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Bobby Mohanty	Cuttack	Baramba	INC	35,26,06,094	71,06,60,000	1,06,32,66,094  106 Crore+	Y
2	Niranjan Patnaik	Keonjhar	Ghasipura	INC	18,36,86,000	41,97,91,000	60,34,77,000  60 Crore+	Y
3	Srimanta Kumar Tripathy	Keonjhar	Champua	IND	25,61,79,706	20,76,82,609	46,38,62,315  46 Crore+	Y

Table: Top three candidates with highest declared assets

·         Crorepati Candidates: Out of the 354 candidates, 103(29%) are crorepatis.

·         Party wise Crorepati Candidates: Among the major parties 31(74%) out of 42 candidates analysed from BJD, 24(57%) out of 42 candidates analysed from BJP, 23(56%) out of 41 candidates analysed from INC, 3(10%) out of 30 candidates analysed from BSP, and 2(40%) out of 5 candidates from AAP have declared assets worth more than Rs. 1 crore. 

·         Average assets: The average of assets per candidate contesting in the Odisha Assembly Elections Phase III is Rs 2.22 Crores.  

·         Party wise average assets: Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 42 BJD candidates analysed is Rs. 4.58 crores, 42 BJP candidates analysed is Rs 3.55 crores, 41 INC candidates have average assets of Rs 7.03 crores, 5 AAP candidates have average assets of Rs 63.37 lakhs  and  30 BSP  candidates have average assets worthRs. 40.89 lakhs.

·         Zero Assets Candidates: One candidate namly Subrat Kumar Habadasingh ofHindusthan Nirman Dal from Chilika constituency has declared zero assets.

·         Low asset candidates: The details of three candidates with lowest assets( excluding zero assets candidate) are as follows:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Movable Assets (Rs)	Immovable Assets (Rs)	Total Assets (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Joginath Sahoo	Cuttack	Banki	Rashtriya Indepndent Morcha	377*	0	377  3 Hund+	Y
2	Krushna Chandra Naik	Angul	Talcher	Ambedkarite Party of India	700*	0	700  7 Hund+	Y
3	Anil Bhoi	Angul	Angul	Ambedkarite Party of India	2,500	0	2,500  2 Thou+	N

 Table: Candidates with declared lowest assets

* on assets value indicates that the candidate has 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: 210(59%) candidates have declared liabilities in their affidavits. The details of top three candidates with highest liabilities are given below:

S.No.	Name	State	Constituency	Party Name	Total Assets(Rs)	Liabilities (Rs)	Disputed liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	Irani Ray	Nayagarh	Nayagarh	BJP	21,78,34,463  21 Crore+	7,41,52,403  7 Crore+	0	Y
2	Srimanta Kumar Tripathy	Keonjhar	Champua	IND	46,38,62,315  46 Crore+	# 6,39,44,871  6 Crore+	21,31,475  21 Lacs+	Y
3	Bobby Mohanty	Cuttack	Baramba	INC	1,06,32,66,094  106 Crore+	# 5,15,95,514  5 Crore+	3,33,590  3 Lacs+	Y

 Table: Top three candidates with high liabilities

  

#disputed liabilities

·         Undeclared PAN:  A total of 26(7%) candidates have not declared their PAN details.

·       Candidates with high income as declared in the ITR*:.The details of top 3  candidates who have declared highest income in ITR is  as given below: 

S.No.	Name	Party Name	Constituency	State	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 candidate	Total income shown by candidate in ITR (Self+Spouse+Dependent) (Rs)	Self income shown by candidate in ITR (Rs)
1	Mohammed Moquim	INC	BARABATI-CUTTACK	CUTTACK	17,97,86,173   17 Crore+	Business	Business	2017-2018	4,93,81,050   4 Crore+	4,80,20,160   4 Crore+
2	Bobby Mohanty	INC	BARAMBA	CUTTACK	1,06,32,66,094   106 Crore+	Business & Income Rental & Remuneration Bank & Int. & Share Of Profit in Family Trust and Partnership Firm and Dividend income	Business & Income Rental & Remuneration Bank & Int. & Share Of Profit in Family Trust and Partnership Firm and Dividend income	2017-2018	1,81,61,038   1 Crore+	1,32,56,612   1 Crore+
3	Sudhir Kumar Samal	BJD	DHENKANAL	DHENKANAL	14,03,13,233   14 Crore+	Business	Business	2017-2018	1,23,76,228   1 Crore+	47,25,851   47 Lacs+

 Table: Top 3 candidates with high income as declared in ITR

*Some Candidates may be exempted from filing Income tax returns

Other Background Details

·         Education details of candidates: 137 (39%) candidates have declared their educational qualification to be between 5^th and 12^th, while 202 (57%) candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. 1 candidate is just literate and 1 candidate has not given his educational qualification details.

·         Age details of candidates: 124(35%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 to 40 years while 189 (53%) candidates have declared their age to be between 41 to 60 years. There are 41 (12%) candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years.

·         Gender details of candidates: 38(11%) female candidates are contesting in the Odisha assembly election Phase III.