ADR Report: Criminal Records & Economical Background analysis of Karnataka’s Ministers

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Karnataka Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 26 out of 27 Ministers including Chief Minister from Karnataka State Assembly 2018. Out of these 27 ministers, 26 are MLAs and one MLC namely Ms. Jayamala. The affidavit of Ms. Jayamala was not available at the time of making this report.

Background Details of Karnataka’s Ministers, 2018

Criminal Background

Ministers with Criminal Cases: 7(27%) ministers including the Chief Minister analysed have declared criminal cases against themselves.
Ministers with Serious Criminal Cases: 4(15%) ministers including the Chief Minister have declared serious criminal cases against themselves.

Financial Background

Crorepati Ministers: Out of the 26 ministers analysed, 25 (96%) are crorepatis.
Average Assets: The average assets of 26 ministers analysed is Rs 76.08 crores.
Ministers with Highest Assets: The minister with the highest declared total assets is D.K. Shivakumar from Kanakpura constituency with assets worth Rs.840.01 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	D K Shivakumar	RAMANAGARAM	KANAKAPURA	INC	1,01,31,90,097	7,38,69,76,948	8,40,01,67,045 840 Crore+	Y
2	R Shankar	HAVERI	RANEBENNUR	Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party	35,56,21,961	2,29,77,55,749	2,65,33,77,710 265 Crore+	Y
3	Deshpande Raghunath Vishwanath	UTTARA KANNADA	HALIYAL	INC	1,85,00,79,738	30,15,13,993	2,15,15,93,731 215 Crore+	Y
4	H D Kumara Swamy	RAMANAGARAM	CHANNAPATNA	JD(S)	1,02,03,82,437	65,10,26,000	1,67,14,08,437 167 Crore+	Y
5	Ramesh Laxmanrao Jarkiholi	BELGAUM	GOKAK	INC	47,68,81,752	75,10,52,000	1,22,79,33,752 122 Crore+	Y

Table: Top 5 Ministers with Highest Assets

Liabilities: A total of 23 out of 26 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)	Disputed liabilities (Rs)	PAN Given
1	D K Shivakumar	RAMANAGARAM	KANAKAPURA	INC	8,40,01,67,045 840 Crore+	# 2,28,27,02,677 228 Crore+	11,60,25,122 11 Crore+	Y
2	H D Kumara Swamy	RAMANAGARAM	CHANNAPATNA	JD(S)	1,67,14,08,437 167 Crore+	1,04,93,92,330 104 Crore+	0	Y
3	R Shankar	HAVERI	RANEBENNUR	Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party	2,65,33,77,710 265 Crore+	53,07,76,675 53 Crore+	0	Y
4	Kelachandra Joseph George	B.B.M.P(NORTH)	SARVAGNANAGAR	INC	80,37,82,475 80 Crore+	48,09,74,477 48 Crore+	0	Y
5	Ramesh Laxmanrao Jarkiholi	BELGAUM	GOKAK	INC	1,22,79,33,752 122 Crore+	46,49,40,112 46 Crore+	0	Y

Table: Ministers with Declared Liabilities

#Disputed Liabilities

Ministers with High Income: 7 out of 26 ministers analysed have declared their total annual income above Rs. 1 crore. The details of these ministers are given below:

S.No.	Name	Party	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 candidate	Total income shown by candidate in ITR (Self+Spouse+ Dependent) (Rs)	Self income shown by candidate in ITR (Rs)
1	Kelachandra Joseph George	INC	SARVAGNANAGAR	B.B.M.P(NORTH)	80,37,82,475 80 Crore+	Salary Rs 387893/-, Income from House Property Rs 4214827/-, Gift (Watch) Taxable Rs 3271198/-, Interest Income Rs 145872/-, Dividend taxable Rs 20664500/-	Salary Rs 17997600/-, Income from House Property Rs 159473/-, Interest Income Rs 82223/-, Plot Rent Rs 145200/-, Profit from race horse Rs 95650/-	2016-2017	4,71,64,436 4 Crore+	2,86,84,290 2 Crore+
2	Deshpande Raghunath Vishwanath	INC	HALIYAL	UTTARA KANNADA	2,15,15,93,731 215 Crore+	Salary , Dividends, Investment	Rent ,Dividends, Investment	2017-2018	3,15,77,980 3 Crore+	22,76,750 22 Lacs+
3	H D Kumara Swamy	JD(S)	CHANNAPATNA	RAMANAGARAM	1,67,14,08,437 167 Crore+	Salary Income Rs 326030/-, Agriculture Income Rs 4163000/-	Directors Remuneration from Kasthuri Medias (P) Ltd. Rs 10284600/-, Pension Received Rs 540000/-	2016-2017	1,53,13,630 1 Crore+	44,89,030 44 Lacs+
4	S R Srinivas	JD(S)	GUBBI	TUMKUR	5,58,42,795 5 Crore+	Business,farming,MLA Salary	Tippeswami oil aksakshan pvt ltd,Business, shops rents, capital gain	2017-2018	1,41,45,347 1 Crore+	10,03,500 10 Lacs+
5	D.C.Thammanna	JD(S)	MADDUR	MANDYA	28,12,19,020 28 Crore+	Rent & other Income	Rent & Business Income & Others	2016-2017	1,16,66,600 1 Crore+	11,96,300 11 Lacs+
6	D K Shivakumar	INC	KANAKAPURA	RAMANAGARAM	8,40,01,67,045 840 Crore+	Salary, Capital gains, Agriculture Income & Other Sources (Such as Bank Interest, Commission)	Rent, Capital gains & Other Sources (Such as Bank Interest)	2016-2017	1,08,93,392 1 Crore+	87,54,657 87 Lacs+
7	H D Revanna	JD(S)	HOLENARASIPUR	HASSAN	29,70,51,951 29 Crore+	Not Given	Not Given	2016-2017	1,01,93,390 1 Crore+	21,49,560 21 Lacs+

Table: Top 7 Ministers with high income

Other Background details (Education, Gender, Age)

Figure: Overall Analysis of Ministers on the basis of age and educational qualification

Ministers’ Education: 11(42%) ministers have declared their educational qualification to be between 8^th– 12^th pass. A total of 10(38%) ministers have declared their educational qualification to be graduate whereas 4(15%) ministers are post graduate and above.
Ministers’ Age: A total of 3(11%) ministers have declared their age to be between 31-50 years while 20(77%) ministers have declared their age to be between 51- 70 years. A total of 2(8%) ministers have declared their age to be between 71-80 years while one minister has declared his age to be above 80 years.