Meet the Andhra candidate with highest assets among Lok Sabha poll contestants

New Delhi: Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, the candidate of TDP from Andhra Pradesh's Guntur Lok Sabha seat, has assets worth Rs 5,705 crore. This amount is the highest among the 8,360 candidates contesting the 2024 general elections, as per the analysis of poll affidavits by the Association of Democratic Reforms. Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, the BJP candidate who contested the Chevella seat in neighbouring Telangana, declared assets worth Rs 4,568 crore. On the other hand, Pallavi Shrinivas Dempo, the BJP candidate from South Goa, possesses assets worth Rs 1,361 crore.

Industrialist Naveen Jindal, the BJP's candidate from Haryana's Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat, declared assets worth Rs 1,241 crore and Congress' Nakul Nath contesting the Chhindwara seat in Madhya Pradesh has assets worth Rs 716 crore, the analysis by poll rights body Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) showed.

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TDP candidate from Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, Prabhakar Reddy Vemireddy, also declared assets worth Rs 716 crore.

Those with high-value declarations also include AIADMK's Ashok Kumar from Erode Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu (Rs 662 crore), and Congress' Venkataramane Gowda aka 'Star Chandru' from Mandya in Karnataka (Rs 622 crore) and D K Suresh from Bangalore Rural in Karnataka (Rs 593 crore), the analysis showed.

Union Minister and BJP candidate from Guna in Madhya Pradesh Jyotiraditya M Scindia declared assets worth Rs 424 crore, BJD's Santrupt Misra from Cuttack in Odisha Rs 482 crore and Congress' Chhatrapati Shahu Shahaji from Kolhapur in Maharashtra declared assets worth Rs 342 crore.

Other notable candidates with high-value assets include actor-turned-politician and BJP's Mathura candidate Hema Malini (Rs 278 crore) and the party's Jhansi candidate Anurag Sharma (Rs 212 crore). Both Mathura and Jhansi Lok Sabha seats are in Uttar Pradesh.

The Lok Sabha polls are being held in seven phases -- between April 19 and June 1. The counting of votes will take place on June 4 for the world's biggest election exercise. Five rounds of polling have been completed. The sixth and seven phases will be held on May 25 and June 1.

Inputs from PTI