Aam Aadmi Party MLAs who aren’t that aamMore than half of Delhi’s newly elected crorepati MLAs are from the BJP and the rest from Congress and the debutant, AAP. NEW DELHI: Not everyone in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is ‘aam’ it seems. Of its 28 MLAs who tasted victory in the Delhi Assembly elections, 12 are crorepatis. The richest among them is Veena Anand, who defeated the Congress’s Rajesh Lilothia to win the Patel Nagar seat. She has assets worth Rs 15.52 crore.
According to an analysis by ADR (Association of Democratic Reforms), the average assets per candidate for the Congress in Delhi was Rs 14.25 crore, followed by Rs 8.16 crore for the BJP and Rs 2.51 crore for the AAP. As far as all the winning MLAs are concerned, the analysis by ADR found that nearly three- fourth of the elected MLAs in Delhi have assets running into crores of rupees. More than half of Delhi’s newly elected crorepati MLAs are from the BJP and the rest from Congress and the debutant, AAP. Value of the assets include both movable and immovable ones and data also revealed that the maximum proportion of the assets of these MLAs are immovable. Incidentally, the chief ministerial candidates from both the AAP and the BJP — Arvind Kejriwal and Dr Harsh Vardhan — fall in the category of crorepati MLAs. While 12 AAP MLAs are crorepatis, there are many MLAs in the party who are aam admi. The 10 MLAs having the least assets belong to the debutant party. Dharmender Singh Koli of the AAP from Seemapuri constituency has declared the lowest assets worth Rs 20,800 followed by Rakhi Birla of the AAP from Mangolpuri constituency with assets worth ` 51,150. Akhileshpati Tripathi from Model Town has declared assets worth Rs 1.59 lakh. The richest winning MLA of Delhi, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, belongs to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). He has won from the Rajouri Garden constituency in west Delhi area and has assets worth Rs 235.51 crore. Thirty (97%) of the 31 BJP MLAs are crorepatis. There are 7 crorepati MLAs from Congress and one MLA from SAD. The only Independent MLA is also a crorepati. On criminal background of MLAs, the report by ADR said that the AAP has three MLAs with criminal cases. While the Congress has two, one each of SAD and JD(U) and an Independent had declared criminal cases against them. The analysis has come after the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) and the Delhi Election Watch ( DEW) analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all the 70 newly elected MLAs in the Delhi 2013 Assembly elections. -- With best wishes S Chander -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
