Press note: - Association for Democratic Reforms

Assets of
candidates
Low (Rs 5
Lakhs or less)
Medium(Rs 5
Lakhs to 40
Lakhs)
High(Rs 40
Lakhs to 3 Cr)
% winners 2% 10% 27% 50%
Very High (Rs
3 Cr and more)
The average asset of winners is 2.69 Crores. The average asset of a congress MLA is 5.2
Crores and that of BJP is 5.13 Cr. There are only 6 MLA with asset value less than 5
lakhs.
32 MLAs have not declared their PAN number. Two of these MLAs are crorepatis. All
candidates who have not declared their PAN numbers are listed at the back.
Vehicle Ownership:
4 MLAs with assets worth more than a crore have declared that they own no vehicle.
Women MLAs:
There are only 11 women MLAs in the new Vidhan Sabha, 6 from BJP and 5 from
congress. In 2003, only 5 women were elected to the Vidhan Sabha, The % of women
MLAs in Chhattisgarh is now around 12%.
Representation of SC and ST
There are a total of 29 SC and 10 ST who have made it to the 2008 Vidhan Sabha. The
distribution is:
Pol. Party GEN SC ST
Grand
Total
INC 24 10 4 38
BJP 26 19 5 50
BSP 1 0 1 2
Grand Total 51 29 10 90
About CGEW
Chhattisgargh Election Watch (CGEW) is part of a nationwide campaign called National Election
Watch (NEW) working on improving democracy and governance in India. It is a citizen led nonpolitically
aligned, non-partisan effort. This time several NGOs, civil society and peoples’
organizations from Chhattisgarh are participating in this effort. These include ADR (Association
for Democratic Reforms), NGM(Nadi Ghati Morcha), PRAYAS, CGCI(Chhattisgarh Citizens
Initiative), CART(Chhattisgarh Action and Research Team), and several others.
The National Election Watch (NEW) is a nationwide campaign comprising of more than 1200
NGO andother citizen led organizations working on electoral reforms, improving democracy and
governance in India. The National Election Watch is active in almost all states of India and has
done election watch for all states and Lok Sabha elections since ADR, along with couple other
organizations, won the PIL in Supreme Court in 2002 to making disclosure of educational,
financial and criminal background of electoral candidates mandatory.