90% crorepatis & 42% ministers with criminal records in PM Modi’s new Cabinet: ADR report

July 10: According to a report published by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), of the 78 ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Union cabinet following the mega reshuffle earlier this week, at least 42% have declared criminal cases against them. Of these ministers, four have cases related to murder attempts, the report showed. Further, seven ministers have declared cases related to electoral violation.

Apart from this, 90% (70) of the new ministers are crorepatis and have declared total assets amounting to over ₹1 crore. Four ministers — Jyotiraditya Scindia (over ₹379 crore), Piyush Goyal (over ₹95 crore), Narayan Rane (over ₹87 crore), and Rajeev Chandrasekhar (over ₹64 crore) — have been categorised as ‘high asset ministers’, which means they have declared assets worth more than ₹50 crore. The average worth of assets per minister has been found to be around ₹16.24 crore, the ADR report added. The lowest asset among all the ministers was declared by Pratima Bhoumik from Tripura (over ₹6 lakh).