Punjab Assembly Elections: With 136 crore assets, Congress’s Kewal Dhillon is the richest player

BARNALA: Congress’s Barnala legislator Kewal Dhillon has emerged as the richest candidate contesting Punjab assembly elections with his family’s joint assets valued Rs 136 crore. He has watches worth Rs 17 lakh, his family has jewellery worth Rs 2.54 crore and their preferred cars are Mercedes and Lexus.

The assets of Dhillon, who filed his declarations on Thursday, are more than that of his party boss, Amarinder Singh, and Akali Dal president Sukhbir Badal. The assets along with Dhillon’s wife, Manjit Kaur, are worth Rs 79 crore. His son, Karan Dhillon, who filed his papers as his father’s covering candidate, has assets worth Rs 57 crore.

Dhillon has an apartment at Vasant Vihar in Delhi worth Rs 25 crore, his wife has three apartments in the same locality, Chandigarh, Palam Vihar, Gurgaon worth Rs 43.25 crore. She also has four acres of land in Retgarh village in Sangrur worth Rs 50 lakh.

Dhillon has agricultural lands at Barnala, Ghollu Majra in Mohali, Behlana in Chandigarh, Kishanpura in Mohali and in Chandigarh worth Rs 26.97 crore. Karan has residential apartments in Gurgaon, and Delhi worth Rs 11.75 crore.