As many as 87 per cent ministers are crorepatis; as many as 49 per cent have prison instances in opposition to themselves and one other 44 per cent have severe prison instances in opposition to them — that’s the Uttar Pradesh cabinet for you.
And simply 5 out of 45 ministers (11 per cent) are girls, in line with an evaluation by Uttar Pradesh Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms launched on Saturday.
The two organisations analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 45 out of 53 ministers, together with the Chief Minister, from the Uttar Pradesh State Assembly 2022.
Giving out particulars, the evaluation mentioned 22 ministers (49 per cent) have declared prison instances in opposition to themselves whereas it was 20 ministers (44 per cent) that had declared severe prison instances in opposition to themselves.
Out of the 45 ministers analysed, 39 (87 per cent) are crorepatis with common belongings analysed to be Rs 9 crore.
The minister with the very best declared complete belongings is Mayankeshwar Sharan Singh from Tiloi constituency with belongings value Rs 58.07 crore whereas the one with lowest declared complete belongings is Dharamveer Singh, an MLC Member from Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council with belongings value Rs 42.91 lakh.
A complete of 27 ministers have declared liabilities out of which the minister with the very best liabilities is Rakesh Sachan of Bhognipur constituency with Rs 8.17 crore of liabilities.
Nine (20 per cent) ministers have declared their instructional qualification to be between class 8 and 12 whereas 36 (80 per cent) ministers have declared having an academic qualification of graduate or above.
Affidavits of Sanjay Nishad, Jitin Prasada, JPS Rathore, Narendra Kashyap, Dinesh Pratap Singh, Dayashankar Mishra Dayalu, Jaswant Saini and Danish Azad Ansari weren’t analysed for varied causes.