Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has the lowest assets among the 30 incumbent Chief Ministers in the country being the only non-crorepati on the list.
According to poll affidavits analysed by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), Banerjee has the lowest total assets of about Rs 15 lakh.
Twenty-nine of the 30 incumbent chief ministers are crorepatis with Andhra Pradesh’s Jagan Mohan Reddy with the highest assets totalling Rs 510 crore.
The three Chief Ministers with the lowest declared assets are Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee (over Rs 15 lakh), Kerala’s Pinarayi Vijayan (over Rs 1 crore) and Haryana’s Manohar Lal (over Rs 1 crore), the ADR said.
The ADR and Election Watch (NEW) said they have arrived at this conclusion after analysing the self-sworn poll affidavits of all the 30 current chief ministers of states and union territories.
There are 28 state chief ministers and two union territories — Delhi and Puducherry — also have chief ministers. The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir does not have a chief minister currently.
Out of the 30 chief ministers analysed, 29 (97 per cent) are crorepatis with the average assets being Rs 33.96 crore for every chief minister, the ADR said.
According to the ADR report, out of the 30 chief ministers, 13 (43 per cent) have declared serious criminal cases, including those related to murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping and criminal intimidation.
Serious criminal cases are non-bailable offences with over five years of imprisonment, the report said. The top three chief ministers in terms of assets are Andhra Pradesh’s Jagan Mohan Reddy (over Rs 510 crore), Arunachal Pradesh’s Pema Khandu (over Rs 163 crore) and Odisha’s Naveen Patnaik (over Rs 63 crore), according to the ADR.
Both Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Delhi’s Arvind Kejriwal own assets worth over Rs 3 crore, the report said.