Record №uttar-pradesh-67 · 18th Lok Sabha · Union Minister
Shri Kamlesh Paswan
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Bansgaon, Uttar Pradesh
Bharatiya Janata Party
Kamlesh Paswan is an Indian politician and is a Member of Parliament in the 18th Lok Sabha of India and Minister of State in Ministry of Rural Development. Paswan represents the Bansgaon constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party political party.
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accountability · Poor
The election
How they won the seat
2024 general election result, as declared by the Election Commission of India.
Margin vs NOTA
More voters chose NOTA than the number of votes separating the winner from the runner-up.
Runner-up: SADAL PRASAD (INC).
Updated 4 Jun 2024
Parliamentary work
Did they show up — and speak?
Activity record from PRS Legislative Research.
As a Union Minister, this member's attendance and questions are not reported by PRS Legislative Research.
Updated 31 May 2026
The affidavit
What they declared
As self-declared in the sworn 2024 election affidavit. Criminal cases are self-declared — pending ≠ convicted.
Updated 1 May 2024
The affidavit · in detail
Cases, assets & income, line by line
Reproduced from the sworn 2024 ECI affidavit. Self-declared — pending ≠ convicted.
Cite a serious IPC section
8 of 9
Other declared cases
1
“Serious” follows the ADR / MyNeta criteria (offence punishable by 5+ years, non-bailable, electoral, against the State, or a crime against women); derived from the self-declared sections. MyNeta’s own analysis lists this MP among winners with declared serious criminal cases.
Charges by IPC / BNS section · self-declared
- 5×Punishment for criminal intimidation (§506)
- 3×Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property (§420)
- 2×Forgery of valuable security, will, etc. (§467)
- 2×Forgery for purpose of cheating (§468)
- 1×Voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty (§332)
- 1×Mischief by destroying or moving, etc., a land- mark fixed by public authority Mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to cause damage to amount of one hundred or (in case of agricultural produce) ten rupees (§435)
- 1×Kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person (§365)
- 1×Kidnapping or abducting in order to murder (§364)
- 1×Punishment for dacoity (§395)
- 1×Causing death by negligence (§304A)
- 1×Punishment for undue influence or personation at an election (§171F)
- 1×Voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery (§394)
- 1×Punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment (§511)
- 4×Punishment for Rioting (§147)
- 4×Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace (§504)
- 3×Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt (§323)
- 2×Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object (§149)
- 2×Punishment for wrongful restraint (§341)
- 2×Mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees (§427)
- 2×Rioting, armed with deadly weapon (§148)
- 2×Punishment for wrongful Confinement (§342)
- 2×Punishment for cheating by personation (§419)
- 2×Using as genuine a forged document or electronic record (§471)
- 1×Punishment for criminal trespass (§447)
- 1×Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant (§188)
- 1×Punishment of criminal conspiracy (§120B)
- 1×Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty (§353)
- 1×Punishment for assault or criminal force otherwise than on grave provocation (§352)
Pending · 7
- Police Station Gulriha CC. No.- 001/2011 serious
ACJM- 2
§147§148§149§323§332§341§353§394§427§504§506Section 7 CLA Act
- Police Satation Cantt CC.No.- 1041/2018, serious
CJM
§120B§419§420§467§468§471 - Police Satation Cantt CC. No. - 292/2014 serious
CJM, Gorakhpur
§171F§188 - Police Station Gulriha CC. No.- 1032/2008 serious
ACJ - 2
§304A§420§506Sectoin 26 Child Labor Prohibition Act
- Police Satation Cantt CC. No. - 149/2016 serious
CJM, Gorakhpur
§147§148§149§323§342§427§447§504§506Sectioin 7 CLA Act
- Police Satation Cantt CC. No. - 286/2020 serious
MP/MLA Court, Gorakhpur
§147§323§352§395§504§506 - Police Satation Cantt CC. No. - 059/2016 serious
CJM, Gorakhpur
§342§364§365§419§420§467§468§471§504§506
Convicted · 2
- C.C. No. 22/2008 serious charges framed
MP/MLA Court , Gorakhpur
§147§341§435§511Sectioin 7 CLA Act, Gulriha Police Station
- C.C. No. 130/2004 charges framed
MP/MLA Court, Gorakhpur
Section -147, 174 Railway Act, Police Station RPF
Reproduced verbatim from the candidate’s sworn ECI affidavit. Self-declared; pending ≠ convicted. Cases marked “charges framed” are pending cases where the court has framed charges and the trial has begun — a court stage, not a verdict.
Where the declared wealth sits
Movable
₹14.00 Cr
Immovable
₹22.18 Cr
Declared sources of income
- SelfMP Salary , Firm Interest
- SpouseAgriculture Interest
Income declared in ITR, by year (self)
Updated 1 May 2024
Local-area funds
Where the development money went
MPLADS development funds for the constituency. House average: 27% spent.
Updated 31 May 2026
Party funding
Who bankrolled the party
Electoral bonds received by Bharatiya Janata Party between 2019 and 2024 — party-level, not attributable to this MP. The scheme was struck down by the Supreme Court in February 2024.
Top corporate donors to Bharatiya Janata Party
Donor-level breakdown is not disclosed for this party in the public bond data.
Updated 15 Feb 2024
What the numbers suggest
Read between the lines
Arithmetic on the public record — cross-checking what was declared, attended, debated, asked and spent. These are observations about the figures, each cited to its source. dickipedia draws no conclusions about any individual.
Declared case(s) cite IPC sections for cheating, forgery of valuable security, kidnapping
Review-worthySections 420, 467, 364, 365 appear in the self-declared affidavit. Pending ≠ convicted; reproduced as recorded.
97% of development funds lie unspent
FlagOnly 3% of MPLADS local-area funds were spent — ₹14.31 Cr unspent.
2 declared case(s) where charges have been framed
FlagSelf-declared in the sworn affidavit — pending ≠ convicted; framing of charges is a court stage, not a verdict.
More voters chose NOTA than the victory margin
NotableNOTA drew 9,021 votes; the seat was won by 3,150.
Reach & roles
Contact & committees
Public contact details as published by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
Paswan Niwas Near BRD Medical College Gorakhpur Uttar Pradesh, 273013
Updated 31 May 2026
Press coverage
In the news
Recent third-party press matched to this MP via an automated news search — aggregated headlines linking out to the original publishers. These are the publishers’ own words: not verified by dickipedia, not one of the public registries, and excluded from the accountability score. An automated match may occasionally be imperfect.
Kamlesh Paswan receives grand welcome on arrival at his Bansgaon constituency after become MoS
ANI News · 4 Jul 2024Four-time Lok Sabha MP Kamlesh Paswan takes oath as Minister of State
India Today · 10 Jun 2024PM Modi 3.0 council of ministers: Who is Kamlesh Paswan
The Times of India · 9 Jun 2024From Kumaraswamy to Chirag Paswan: Meet the fresh faces in Modi government 3.0
Moneycontrol.com · 9 Jun 2024Kamlesh Paswan Becomes MoS After Fourth Consecutive Lok Sabha Victory
Oneindia · 9 Jun 2024
Updated 31 May 2026
Provenance
Sources & method
- Election Commission of India
- PRS Legislative Research
- Lok Sabha Secretariat
- ADR / MyNeta — sworn affidavit
- MPLADS eSAKSHI (MoSPI)
- ECI / SBI electoral-bond disclosure
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
- Google News (aggregated press; not verified)
dickipedia reports public records and the arithmetic on them, and cites every figure; it authors no accusations. Criminal data is reproduced as self-declared in sworn affidavits (pending ≠ convicted). Electoral-bond totals are party-level. Spot an error? It’s open data — corrections welcome on GitHub.