IT Correspondent
New Delhi, July 11:
Of 78 Union ministers, 42% ministers have criminal cases, including murder, robbery against them,while 90% (70) of the new ministers are crorepatis and have declared total assets amounting to over Rs.1 crore, as per the report prepared by the Association for Democratic Reforms(ADR) based on their poll affidavits.
The four ministers have cases related to attempt to murder, according to the ADR report. As many as 15 new cabinet ministers and 28 ministers of state were sworn in on Wednesday, taking the strength of the council of ministers to 78. Of all the ministers analysed, 33 (42 per cent) have declared criminal cases against against themselves.
About 24 or 31 per cent ministers have declared serious criminal cases, including cases related to murder, attempt to murder, robbery etc. Nisith Pramanik from Cooch Behar constituency who has been appointed as the Minister of State for Home Affairs has declared a case related to murder (IPC Section-302) against himself. At 35, he is also the youngest minister in the cabinet.
Four ministers have declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC Section-307). They are – John Barla, Pramanik, Pankaj Choudhary and V Muraleedharan. Out of the ministers analysed, 70 (90 per cent) are crorepatis and the average assets per minister is Rs.16.24 crore. Four ministers have declared more than Rs 50 crore worth of assets. They are Jyotiraditya Scindia, Piyush Goyal, Narayan Tatu Rane and Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
The list of ministers is: 1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 2. Rajnath Singh: Defence Minister, 3. Amit Shah: Home Minister, Cooperation Minister, 4. Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport and Highways Minister, 5. Nirmala Sitharaman: Finance Minister, Corporate Affairs Minister, 6. Narendra Singh Tomar: Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister and 7. S Jaishankar: External Affairs Minister.
8. Arjun Munda: Tribal Affairs Minister, 9. Smriti Irani: Women and Child Welfare Minister, 10. Piyush Goyal: Commerce & Industry Minister, Consumer Affairs Minister, Food & Public Distribution Minister, Textiles Minister, 11. Dharmendra Pradhan: Education Minister, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister, 12. Pralhad Joshi: Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Coal Minister, Mines Minister, 13. Narayan Rane: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister, 14. Sarbananda Sonowal: Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister, AYUSH Minister and 15. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Minority Affairs Minister
16. Dr Virendra Kumar: Social Justice and Empowerment Minister, 17. Giriraj Singh: Rural Development Minister, Panchayati Raj Minister, 18. Jyotiraditya Scindia: Civil Aviation Minister, 19. Ramchandra Prasad Singh: Steel Minister, 20. Ashwini Vaishnaw: Railways Minister, Communication Minister, Electronics & IT Minister, 21. Pashu Pati Kumar Paras: Food Processing Industries Minister, 22. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Jal Shakti Minister, 23. Kiren Rijiju: Law & Justice Minister and
24. Raj Kumar Singh: Power Minister, New & Renewable Energy Minister.
25. Hardeep Singh Puri: Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister, Housing & Urban Affairs Minister, 26. Mansukh Mandaviya: Health and Family Welfare Minister, Chemicals & Fertilisers Minister, 27. Bhupender Yadav: Environment, Forest & Climate Minister, Labour & Employment Minister, 28. Mahendra Nath Pandey: Heavy Industries Minister
29. Parshottam Rupala: Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister, 30. G Kishan Reddy: Culture Minister, Tourism Minister, Minister for Development of Northeast and
31. Anurag Thakur: Information & Broadcasting Minister, Sports & Youth Affairs Minister.
Ministers of State with Independent Charge
.32. Rao Inderjit Singh: Statistics and Programme Implementation, Planning, Corporate Affairs and 33. Jitendra Singh: Science & Technology; Earth Sciences; Prime Minister’s Office; Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space
Ministers of State
.34. Shripad Yesso Naik: Ports, Shipping and Waterways; Tourism, 35. Faggansingh Kulaste: Steel, Rural Development, 36. Prahalad Singh Patel: Jal Shakti, Food Processing Industries, 37. Ashwini Kumar Choubey: Consumer Affairs; Food & Public Distribution; Environment, Forest & Climate Change, 38. Arjun Ram Meghwal: Parliamentary Affairs, Culture, 39. V K Singh: Road Transport & Highways, Civil Aviation, 40. Krishan Pal: Power, Heavy Industries, 41. Danve Raosaheb Dadarao: Railways, Coal, Mines
42. Ramdas Athawale: Social Justice & Empowerment and 43. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti: Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Rural Development.
44. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, Dairying, 45. Nityanand Rai: Home Affairs, 46. Pankaj Choudhary: Finance, 47. Anupriya Singh Patel: Commerce & Industries, 48. S P Singh Baghel: Law & Justice, 49. Rajeev Chandrasekhar: Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Electronics & IT
50. Shobha Karandlaje: Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, 51. Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma: Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, 52. Darshana Vikram Jardosh: Textiles, Railways, 53. V Muraleedharan: External Affairs, Parliamentary Affairs and 54. Meenakshi Lekhi: External Affairs, Culture.
55. Som Parkash: Commerce & Industry, 56. Renuka Singh Saruta: Tribal Affairs, 57. Rameswar Teli: Petroleum and Natural Gas, Labour and Employment, 58. Kailash Choudhary: Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, 59. Annpurna Devi: Education 60. A Narayanaswamy: Social Justice and Empowerment, 61. Kaushal Kishore: Housing and Urban Affairs, 62. Ajay Bhatt: Defence, Tourism, 63. B L Verma: Development of North Eastern Region, Cooperation, 64. Ajay Kumar: Home Affairs, 65. Devusinh Chauhan: Communications and 66. Bhagwanth Khuba: New and Renewable Energy, Chemicals and Fertilisers.
67. Kapil Moreshwar Patil: Panchayati Raj, 68. Pratima Bhoumik: Social Justice and Empowerment, 69. Subhas Sarkar: Education, 70. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad: Finance
71. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh: External Affairs, Education, 72. Bharati Pravin Pawar: Health and Family Welfare, 73. Bishweswar Tudu: Tribal Affairs, Jal Shakti.
74. Shantanu Thakur: Ports, Shipping and Waterways, 75. Munjapara Mahendrabhai: Women and Child Development, AYUSH, 76. John Barla: Minority Affairs, 77. L Murugan: Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Information and Broadcasting and 78. Nisith Pramanik: Home Affairs, Youth Affairs and Sports.
