With 12 crore assets, Naveen Patnaik richest in cabinet

BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik's assets are worth over Rs 12 crore, making him the richest man in the Odisha's 21-member council of ministers, according to the Odisha government website. The website lists 11 ministers as crorepatis.

Going by the statements on the site, Patnaik has movable and immovable property worth Rs 12.06 crore. On the other hand, energy minister Arun Sahoo is the 'poorest' with property worth Rs 24.47 lakh, including about Rs 10 lakh in his wife's name. This is the second successive year when the government has made public the property lists of ministers.

Naveen has movable assets worth Rs 18, 23,398 and landed property worth Rs 11,88,62,000. He inherited farm land measuring 22.7 acre valued at Rs 3.43 crore in Faridabad, Haryana from his mother Gyan Patnaik. He also inherited one-third of his parents' house at Aurangzeb Road, New Delhi, worth Rs 5.14 crore. He also inherited two-third of Naveen Niwas worth Rs 2.80 crore and one-third of a property at Ananda Bhawan in Cuttack, estimated at Rs 51 lakh.

Among Naveen's colleagues, nine have claimed that they do not own a car while 11 others said they do not own a house in Bhubaneswar.