TDP chief N. Chandrababu Naidu speaks during the NDA parliamentary party meeting at Samvidhan Sadan, in New Delhi, Friday, June 7, 2024.
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Hyderabad: TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, has the highest assets among all the newly elected MLAs in the polls held on May 13 in Andhra Pradesh. According to the assessment of the election affidavits of the candidates submitted to the Election Commission, done by Delhi based Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), Naidu who had won from Kuppam had declared total assets of Rs 931 Crs. After Naidu, former minister P Narayana who owns Narayana group of educational institutions, holds the highest assets that are worth Rs 824crs. He contested on a TDP ticket and won from Nellore city assembly segment. Narayana is followed by YSRCP supremo Y Jagan Mohan Reddy who declared assets valued at Rs 757crs. He contested from his bastion Pulivendula.
Naidu, Narayana and Jagan are the top three MLAs with highest assets in the current Andhra Pradesh assembly. ADR could not analyse the affidavit of one winner namely Palle Sindhura Reddy of TDP who had contested from Puttaparthi Constituency due to non-availability of clear and complete affidavit on the ECI website.
Out of the 174 winning candidates that were analysed by ADR, 162 (93 per cent) are crorepatis. 127(95pc) out of 134 winning candidates from TDP, 8 (100 per cent) out of 8 winning candidates from BJP, 9 (82 per cent) out of 11 winning candidates from YSRCP and 18 (86 per cent) out of 21 winning candidates from Jana Sena have declared assets worth more than Rs 1 cr .
The average of assets per winning candidates in the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections 2024 is Rs 65.07 Cr. The average assets per winning candidate for 134 TDP winning candidates is Rs 67.97 Cr, 8 BJP winning candidates is Rs 34.29 Cr, 11 YSRCP winning candidates is Rs 99.19 Cr and 21 Jana Sena winning candidates have average assets worth Rs 40.43Cr.
While YSRCP contested on its own without an alliance, TDP, Jana Sena and BJP had formed an alliance and contested in 2024 polls. As part of alliance, of the total 175 assembly seats in the state, TDP had contested in 144, Jana Sena in 21 and BJP in 10 seats. TDP won 134 seats, Jana Sena 21 and BJP eight.
ADR had also analysed the criminal cases against the MLAs. Out of the 174 winning candidates analysed in 2024, 138(79pc) winning candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves. Around 98 (56pc) have declared serious criminal cases. Around 22 winning candidates have declared cases related to crime against women. Out of these 22 one winning candidate has declared cases related to rape under IPC Section-376.
Around 115(86pc) out of 134 winning candidates from TDP, 7(88pc) out of 8 winning candidates from BJP, 6 (55pc) out of 11 winning candidates from YSRCP and 10 (48pc) out of 21winning candidates from Jana Sena Party have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.