As many as 87 per cent Ministers are crorepatis; 49 per cent have criminal cases against them and another 44 per cent have serious criminal cases against them as per the data compiled by the UP Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). In the Yogi Adityanath Government 2.0 just five or 11 per cent women are Ministers, according to an analysis released by the ADR on Saturday.
The two organisations analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 45 out of 53 Ministers, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, from the data filed by the candidates in their respective nomination papers for 2022 UP Assembly elections.
Giving out details, the analysis says 22 Ministers (49 per cent) have declared criminal cases against themselves while 20 Ministers (44 per cent) have declared serious criminal cases against them. Out of the 45 Ministers analysed, 39 (87 per cent) are crorepatis with average assets worthRs 9 crore.
The minister with the highest declared assets is Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh from Tiloi constituency with assets worth Rs 58.07 crore while the one with lowest declared total assets is Dharamveer Singh, a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council, with assets worth Rs 42.91 lakh.
A total of 27 Ministers have declared liabilities out of which the minister with the highest liabilities is Rakesh Sachan of Bhognipur constituency with Rs 8.17 crore of liabilities.
Nine (20 per cent) ministers have declared their educational qualification to be between class 8 and 12 while 36 (80 per cent) ministers have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above.
Details about Sanjay Nishad, Jitin Prasada, JPS Rathore, Narendra Kashyap, Dinesh Pratap Singh, Dayashankar Mishra Dayalu, Jaswant Saini and Danish Azad Ansari were not available as they had not contested the assembly elections.
