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Home , Anil Madhav Dave, Anupriya Patel, Mahesh Sharma, Niranjan Jyoti, Piyush Goyal, Ram Vilas Paswan

KNOW YOUR NEW MINISTERS Education of 78 ministers An analysis of the criminal, financial & other background details of the Union 14 (18%) have declared council of ministers after Tuesday’s Cabinet reshuffle shows 72 crorepati ministers. they have studied till class XII or Here is a snapshot of the latest inductees: below, while 63 ministers (81%) Criminal Ministers’ age Women are graduates Number of cases , 35, Lok ministers ministers analysed Sabha member from 5th pass 1 7 of the 19 newly inducted in , is the 12 10th pass 7 ministers have declared criminal youngest minister in the council 12th pass 6 cases against themselves of ministers and Najma % Graduate 15 Heptullah, 76, is the oldest Graduate professional 24 24 ministers out of 31 to 40 years 3 9 of 78 Postgraduate 20 the total 78 (31%) % 31 41 to 60 years 44 ministers (12%) have criminal cases Doctorate 4 61 to 80 years 31 are women Others 1

Assets of ministers 9 of the 78 ministers have declared total assets worth more than ~30 crore. A look at the richest among them: 92 72 of 78 % ministers (92%) Constituency/State Party Movable Total are crorepatis assets (~ cr) RS/Gujarat BJP 37 113 ~12.94 cr Average assets ~8.73 cr Average assets of HarsimratKaurBadal Bathinda/Punjab SAD 46 108 of 78 ministers the newly inducted ministers RS/ BJP 78 95 6 of the 78 ministers have declared assets of less than JayantSinha Hazaribagh/ ~1 crore. They are: BJP 43 55 Constituency/State Party Total assets (~ lakh) Y Satyanarayana Chowdary RS/Andhra Pradesh TDP 47 54 Sadhvi Fatehpur/UP BJP 37 Anil MadhavDave /MP BJP 60 Gautam Buddha Nagar /UttarPradesh BJP 20 47 Almora/Uttarakhand BJP 63 Thawarchand Gehlot Rajya Sabha/MP BJP 80 M J Akbar RS/ BJP 26 44 Lohardaga/Jharkhand BJP 90 Pilibhit/UttarPradesh BJP 10 37 Ram Vilas / LJP 96 P P Chaudhary Pali/ BJP 2 35

Note: RS stands for Rajya Sabha; SAD stands for Shiromani Akali Dal; TDP stands for ; LJP stands for Lok Jan Shakti Party Source: Analysis of self sworn affidavits to the Election Commission of members of the council of ministers (including the prime minister) by National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (affidavits cover 2014 and recent Rajya Sabha elections)