15% of candidates contesting 2nd phase of Bengal Assembly elections are crorepatis

Kolkata: Fifteen per cent of the candidates contesting in the second phase of West Bengal Assembly elections are crorepatis.
The West Bengal Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 171 candidates, who are contesting in the second phase Phase
Out of the 171 candidates, 26(15%) are crorepatis.
Among the major parties 11(37%) out of 30 candidates analysed from AITC, 10(33%) out of 30 candidates analysed from BJP, 2(22%) out of 9 candidates analysed from INC and One candidate each from AIFB, Lok Samya Party and Independent have declared assets valued more than Rs 1 crore.
The average of assets per candidate contesting in the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 Phase II is Rs 92.66 Lacs.
Among major parties, the average assets per candidate for 30 BJP candidates analysed is Rs. 2.31 Crores, 30 AITC candidates analysed is Rs 1.79 Crore, 28 SUCI(C) candidates have average assets of Rs 26.72 Lacs, 15 CPI(M) candidates have average assets of Rs 29.98 Lacs and 9 INC candidates have average assets worth Rs 1.22 Crore.
There are 56(33%) candidates have declared liabilities in their affidavits.
A total of 9(5%) candidates have not declared their PAN details. There are 63(37%) candidates have declared their educational qualifications to be between 5th and 12th standard while 101 (59%) candidates have declared having an educational qualification of graduate or above. 2 candidates are Diploma holders. 4 candidates are just literate and one candidate is Illiterate.
There are 46(27%) candidates have declared their age to be between 25 to 40 years while 92 (54%) candidates have declared their age to be between 41 to 60 years. There are 33(19%) candidates who have declared their age to be between 61 to 80 years.
There are 19(11%) female candidates are contesting in the West Bengal assembly election 2021 Phase II.