With Assets Worth Rs 15000, Makarand Muduli is Odisha’s Poorest MLA

Bhubaneswar: Rayagada MLA Makaranda Muduli is the ‘poorest’ legislator in Odisha, according to the report of the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Muduli won the Rayagada Assembly seat as an independent candidate in the 2019 Assembly polls. As per the ADR report, he tops the list of 10 MLAs with the lowest assets in the state.

As per the report, Muduli has only movable assets worth Rs 15,000 and no immoveable asset.

The BJD MLA from Bari, Sunanda Das, is placed second with assets worth around Rs 8 lakh, said the ADR report. Baripada’s BJP MLA Prakash Soren, got the third position in the list with assets worth Rs 9 lakh.

Khallikote MLA Suryamani Baidya (BJD) with assets worth Rs 11 lakh, Malkangiri MLA Aditya Madhi (BJP) with Rs 12 lakh and Chitrakonda MLA Purna Chandra Baka (BJD) with assets worth around Rs 12 lakh placed at fourth, fifth and sixth position in the list respectively.

Labour Minister and Rourkela BJD MLA Sarada Prasad Nayak with movable and immovable assets worth around Rs 13 lakh is in the seventh position.

Udala MLA Bhaskar Madhei (BJP) with assets worth Rs 19 lakh and Talcher MLA Brajakishore Pradhan (BJD) with Rs 20 lakh assets are at eighth and ninth position in the list respectively.

BJD MLA from Choudwar-Cuttack segment, Souvic Biswal, got 10th position with assets worth around Rs 20 lakh, said the ADR report.