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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/ys-jagan-mohan-reddy-is-indias-wealthiest-cm-naveen-3rd-richest-adr-report/articleshow/99455469.cms
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U Sudhakar Reddy and Ashok Pradhan
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Bhubaneswar/ Hyderabad

Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is the richest CM in the country with assets of Rs 510 crore, while his Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik is the third richest with assets worth Rs 63 crore, Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), a watch group which works for political and electoral reforms, said in its latest report.

West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee is the only CM who is not a crorepati.

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao tops the list with the highest number of criminal cases and financial liabilities against his name, the report said.

Banerjee, with Rs 15 lakh in assets, has the least wealth among all the CMs in the country, followed by Kerala's Pinarayi Vijayan and Haryana's Manohar Lal Khattar, who have Rs 1.2 crore and Rs 1.3 crore in assets each, respectively, the group said.

ADR filed its report after analysing the poll affidavits of CMs of 28 states and two Union Territories. Out of the 30 CMs analysed, 29 (97%) are crorepatis with the average assets for each CM working out to Rs 34 crore, ADR said.

ADR said Arunachal Pradesh's Pema Khandu trails Jagan with assets worth Rs 163 crore. KCR's assets are worth Rs 23 crore, it said.

Patnaik's assets are largely his immovable properties, around Rs 63.6 crore of the total Rs 63.9 crore, the total being around double of the average of assets per chief minister at Rs 33.96 crore. The immovable assets of the 76-year-old bachelor politician are three properties inherited by him while he has not added any on his own. The properties include farmland of 22.7 acres valued Rs 10.8 crore in Faridabad, a two-thirds share in Naveen Niwas where he stays in Bhubaneswar (Rs 9.5 crore) and a 50% share in housing property at 3 Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi (Rs 43.4 crore). In last year's ADR report, Jagan's assets stood at Rs 373 crore, including assets he inherited and those he acquired, thereby topping the chart of richest CMs in the country in 2022 as well.


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