Lok Sabha Election 2024 2nd Phase Voting: Richest Candidate Has Rs 622 Crore, Poorest Has Just…

New Delhi:

The voting for the second section of Lok Sabha polls will happen throughout 88 seats in 13 states and union territories on Friday.

The votes will likely be solid in all 20 Lok Sabha seats of Kerala, 14 of the 28 seats in Karnataka, 13 seats in Rajasthan, eight seats every in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, six seats in Madhya Pradesh, 5 seats every in Assam and Bihar, three seats every in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, and one seat every in Manipur, Tripura and Jammu and Kashmir.

Earlier, 89 constituencies have been anticipated to vote on this section. But polling in Madhya Pradesh’s Betul was rescheduled after the dying of a candidate from the Bahujan Samaj Party. Betul will now vote within the third section on May 7.

In 2019, the ruling BJP-led NDA gained 56 of those 89 seats, whereas the opposition UPA secured 24.

Among the outstanding contestants are Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, BJP’s Tejasvi Surya, Hema Malini, and Arun Govil, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Shashi Tharoor, and former Karnataka chief minister and JDS’s HD Kumaraswamy.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 2: 5 Richest Candidates

1. Karnataka Congress chief Venkataramane Gowda, who’s popularly generally known as ‘Star Chandru’, is the richest candidate within the section 2 polling, in accordance with an evaluation of self-sworn affidavits of the contestants by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and the National Election Watch. Mr Gowda, who’s contesting towards HD Kumaraswamy, has declared belongings value Rs 622 crore.
2. Incumbent Karnataka Congress MP DK Suresh is the second richest candidate with belongings valued at Rs 593 crore. Mr Suresh, the youthful brother of Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, is a three-time MP who’s looking for re-election from Bangalore Rural. According to his ballot affidavit, he has Rs 16.61 crore in banks as deposits, has agriculture land at 21 areas value Rs 32.76 crore, non-agriculture land at 27 locations value Rs 210.47 crore, 9 business buildings value Rs 211.91 crore and three residential buildings value Rs 27.13 crore.
3. BJP MP Hema Malini, who’s combating once more from the Mathura Lok Sabha seat, is the third richest with belongings value Rs 278 crore.
4. Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Sanjay Sharma is fourth on the record. He has declared belongings value Rs 232 crore.
5. HD Kumaraswamy, former Karnataka Chief Minister, is fifth on the record and has whole belongings of about Rs 217.21 crore.

Phase 2 Election 2024: 5 Poorest Candidates

1. Laxman Nagorao Patil, who’s combating Lok Sabha polls from Maharashtra’s Nanded as an Independent, is the candidate with the bottom belongings within the second section. According to his ballot affidavit, he has declared belongings value Rs 500.
2. Mr Patil is adopted by one other unbiased candidate Rajeswari KR, who’s contesting from Kasaragod in Kerala and has belongings value Rs 1,000.
3. Pruthvisamrat Mukindrao Dipwansh, who entered the competition as an unbiased candidate from Amravati (SC), is third on the record and has whole belongings of Rs 1,400.
4. Dalit Kranti Dal chief Shahnaz Bano, who’s contesting from Rajasthan’s Jodhpur, has declared belongings value Rs 2,000.
5. VP Kochumon, who has been fielded by the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) from Kerala’s Kottayam, is fifth on the record with Rs 2,230 belongings.

After the second section, polling will likely be over in Kerala, Rajasthan, and Tripura. In the primary section of voting on April 19, polling was accomplished in all seats of Tamil Nadu (39), Uttarakhand (5), Arunachal Pradesh (2), Meghalaya (2), Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1), Mizoram (1), Nagaland (1), Puducherry (1), Sikkim (1) and Lakshadweep (1).