205 of 230 Madhya Pradesh MLAs Crorepatis

Bhopal: According to an Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) report, 205 of the 230 newly elected MLAs in Madhya Pradesh are crorepatis. Of these crorepati MLAs, 144 are from the BJP and 61 from the Congress.

The average assets of the MLAs stood at Rs 11.77 crore.

The richest MLA is the BJP MLA from Ratlam City, Chaitanya Kashyap, with declared assets worth Rs 296 crore. The BJP MLA Sanjay Satyendra Pathak from Vijayraghavgarh is at the second position with Rs 242 crore assets. State Congress president Kamal Nath has more than Rs 134 crore worth of assets.

In the 2018 assembly polls, 187 crorepati MLAs were elected to the Madhya Pradesh Assembly. Their number has increased in 2023.

Among the candidates having the highest liabilities, BJP’s former minister Surendra Patwa (Bhojpur) is leading with a debt of Rs 57 crore, Dinesh Jain (Mahidpur) of the Congress was in second place with Rs 30 crore and BJP’s Bhupendra Singh (Khurai) on third with Rs 23 crore, said the ADR.

The average assets of the newly elected MLAs stood at Rs 11.77 crore, up from Rs 10.17 crore in 2018, said the report