New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is the richest CM in India whereas his West Bengal counterpart, Mamata Banerjee, has the least web belongings.
These are a few of the information that stood out throughout ThePrint’s evaluation of the final election affidavits of the nation’s 30 chief ministers.
The evaluation threw up another attention-grabbing info too. For instance, Assam’s Himanta Biswa Sarma is probably the most educated chief minister on this nation and eight CMs personal firearms.
The evaluation additionally confirmed that Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang-Golay has three wives.
Right here’s a better take a look at India’s 30 chief ministers, all by way of their election affidavits.
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Who’s the richest of all of them?
Jagan Reddy’s belongings stand at Rs 370 crore — greater than these of all the opposite CMs mixed — the affidavits present. This contains the belongings he inherited in addition to these acquired.
The one different chief minister with belongings price greater than Rs 100 crore is Arunachal Pradesh’s Pema Khandu. His web belongings stand at Rs 132 crore.
The cumulative belongings of all eight northeastern chief ministers (Rs 178.85), the truth is, are just a little greater than these of all the opposite CMs — barring Reddy— mixed (Rs 178,49), the election affidavits present.
Banerjee is the poorest chief minister, with belongings price Rs 15 lakh, whereas Bihar CM Nitish Kumar follows at Rs 56 lakh.
The one different chief minister with belongings below Rs 1 crore is Kerala’s Pinarayi Vijayan (Rs 73 lakh).
CMs with firearms
Eight CMs — Tamang, Eknath Shinde, Adityanath, Hemant Soren, Pushkar Singh Dhami, N. Biren Singh, Bhagwant Mann, and Shivraj Singh Chouhan — personal firearms.
Sikkim CM Tamang owns a bore revolver price Rs 3 lakh — the costliest weapon on this checklist. Maharashtra’s Eknath Shinde owns a revolver and a pistol that collectively value Rs 5 lakh.
Other than him, Uttar Pradesh’s Yogi Adityanath is the one different chief minister to checklist two weapons — a revolver and a rifle.
Different rifle-owning CMs on the checklist are Jharkhand’s Soren and Uttarakhand’s Dhami.
Other than these, three chief ministers personal weapons — Manipur’s Biren Singh (a pistol price Rs 1.75 lakh), Punjab’s Mann (a gun price Rs 20,000), and Madhya Pradesh’s Chouhan (a Rs 5,500 revolver).
Richer spouses
‘Enterprise’ seems to be the preferred alternative of occupation amongst chief ministers’ spouses — the election affidavits present a dozen companions engaged in some type of enterprise.
Furthermore, the spouses of six chief ministers — amongst them Sarma, Soren, Chouhan, and Shinde — are richer than their husbands.
The Assam CM’s spouse, Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, who’s listed as “chairman-cum-managing director” of Pleasure East Leisure Pvt Ltd media firm, holds belongings price Rs 11 crore in opposition to her husband’s Rs 1 crore.
Soren is price Rs 2.24 crore whereas his spouse Kalpana has Rs 5.81 crore price of belongings to her identify.
Likewise, Chouhan’s web belongings come to Rs 2.6 crore in opposition to his partner Sadhna Singh’s Rs 3.9 crore.
Each Soren’s and Singh’s wives are concerned in “companies”, in line with their election affidavits.
Like her husband, Maharashtra CM Shinde’s spouse Lata Shinde is a development “contractor” whose web belongings come to Rs 5.5 crore. Shinde, in the meantime, holds belongings price Rs 2.24 crore.
5 of the 30 CMs — Haryana’s Manohar Lal Khattar, Odisha’s Naveen Patnaik, UP’s Adityanath, and Puducherry’s N. Rangaswamy, and West Bengal’s Banerjee — are single, the affidavits present.
Nonetheless, of the 30 CMs, Sikkim’s Tamang stands out as being the one one to have a number of wives. All three of his wives are authorities workers.
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Most legal circumstances
At 64, Telangana’s Ok. Chandrashekar Rao, or KCR, has probably the most legal circumstances.
Two of his southern counterparts — Tamil Nadu’s M.Ok. Stalin and Andhra Pradesh’s Jagan — comply with him at 47 and 38 circumstances.
None of those circumstances relate to probably the most heinous crimes like rape or homicide. Nonetheless, they embrace expenses of legal intimidation (KCR and Reddy), rioting (KCR), dishonest (Reddy), try to homicide (KCR), and kidnapping (Stalin).
Not one of the nation’s 10 BJP CMs have a single legal case in opposition to them, their affidavits present.
Amongst non-BJP CMs, Rajasthan’s Ashok Gehlot, West Bengal’s Banerjee, Odisha’s Patnaik, Meghalaya’s Conrad Sangma, Nagaland’s Neiphiu Rio, and Puducherry’s Rangaswamy additionally face no legal expenses.
Right here, too, Tamang stands out — he’s the one chief minister to have been convicted in a corruption case. Tamang was sentenced to a yr’s imprisonment and served a yr in jail between 2017 and 2018 after he was discovered responsible of misappropriating funds in a cow distribution scheme when he was minister for animal husbandry in 1996.
He was barred by the Illustration of the Individuals Act 1951 from contesting any elections for six years. However in 2021, the Election Fee of India lowered that interval to a yr and a month.
Schooling ranges
Assam’s fiery Himanta Biswa Sarma seems to be probably the most educated amongst India’s CMs. In accordance with his affidavit, he has a doctorate in philosophy, an MA in political science, and a legislation diploma.
His Tripura counterpart Manik Saha has a grasp’s diploma in dentistry. There are three engineers on the checklist too. Whereas Delhi’s Arvind Kejriwal and Karnataka’s Basavraj Bommai each have levels in mechanical engineering, Gujarat’s Bhupendra Patel has a diploma in civil engineering.
In the meantime, Maharashtra’s Eknath Shinde is the least educated of all his friends. The Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena chief, whose auto driver-to-politician story is well-known, isn’t even a highschool graduate.
Who has probably the most autos?
Solely eight CMs — Khattar, Vijayan, Gehlot, Stalin, KCR, Adityanath, Dhami, and Banerjee — personal no autos of their very own, the affidavits present.
In the meantime, Andhra CM Reddy has 4 autos to his identify — three Scorpios and a BMW. For these, he writes in his affidavit: “Bulletproof autos owned by others, are registered in my identify (although not owned or invested by me) in view of (the) stipulation by Ministry of Residence Affairs”.
Khandu owns the very best variety of autos — seven in all, price Rs 1.5 crore.
These are a Tata Truck, two Ford Endeavours, one Toyota Fortuner, one Bolero, and one Tata dumper.
After him, Nagaland’s Neiphiu Rio has the following set of most costly autos. His three — a Maruti Alto, a BMW MINI, and a Land Cruiser Prado — value over Rs 1 crore.
Then again, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and his spouse Mukteshwari Baghel, each of whom checklist “agriculture” as their career, personal one tractor every.
Immovable belongings
Though Jagan Reddy is way forward of his counterparts by way of his web price, it’s Odisha’s Naveen Patnaik who has inherited probably the most property, the affidavits present.
Patnaik inherited Rs 60 crore price of immovable property — over 1.5 occasions greater than Puducherry’s Rangaswamy, who follows him at Rs 38 crore.
Immovable property contains residential and business buildings, in addition to agricultural and non-agricultural land.
Having already inherited crores price of property, nonetheless, neither Rangaswamy nor Patnaik have acquired any of their very own, the affidavits present.
Others who haven’t acquired any such new property are Tripura’s Manik Saha, who inherited Rs 10.8 crore, and Haryana’s Khattar, who was bequeathed solely Rs 33 lakh.
Eight CMs who inherited nothing have made fortunes for themselves.
KCR leads this checklist with belongings price Rs 12 crore. He’s adopted by Eknath Shinde (Rs 4.47 crore), Basavraj Bommai (Rs. 3.77 crore), Bhupendra Patel (Rs 3.04 crore), and Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Rs 2.83 crore).
Mizoram CM Zoramthanga, Karnataka’s Bommai, and Jharkhand’s Soren, all of whom inherited nothing, now personal immovable belongings price over Rs 1 crore.
Three chief ministers who personal no immovable property are Adityanath, Banerjee, and Sarma. Nonetheless, Sarma’s spouse Riniki Bhuyan has immovable belongings price Rs 4 crore to her identify, the affidavits present.
(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)
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