Who is the richest candidate in Delhi Assembly Election 2025: Voting for all 70 seats of Delhi Assembly is to be held on 5th February. This time 699 candidates are in the fray for all 70 seats. The nomination process, which ran from January 10 to January 17 this month, followed by scrutiny and the date of nomination, may now be curious to know who is the richest candidate contesting the Delhi elections this time? How much assets have been disclosed by him? To which party do the lowest-ranking candidates belong and who has the most assets among the independent candidates? Answers to all such questions have been given in the reports of Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Delhi Election Watch. You can check details here.
These are the richest candidates of Delhi elections
This time in the Delhi Assembly elections, Karnail Singh (BJP candidate Karnail Singh), contesting from Shakur Basti seat, is the richest candidate. BJP candidate Karnail Singh, who has fielded himself on BJP ticket, has assets worth more than Rs 259 crore. This information has come to light from the reports of Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Delhi Election Watch. ADR and Delhi Election Watch have analyzed the affidavits given by the candidates in the Delhi Assembly elections 2025. 699 candidates are in the fray in these elections. Out of these 699, 5 candidates i.e. 1 percent are billionaires. The total assets of all these candidates are Rs 3,952 crore.
BJP candidate Manjinder Singh Sirsa, contesting from Rajouri Garden seat, has assets of more than Rs 248 crore, while Congress candidate Gurcharan Singh, contesting from Krishna Nagar seat, has disclosed assets of more than Rs 130 crore. BJP candidate Parvesh Sahib Singh, who is contesting from the New Delhi seat to challenge Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) President Arvind Kejriwal, has disclosed assets worth more than Rs 115 crore. Whereas Kejriwal has declared his total assets as Rs 4 crore.
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Current Chief Minister of Delhi Atishi has disclosed assets worth more than Rs 1 crore. She has contested this election from Kalkaji seat. In the list of richest candidates in Delhi elections, out of total 699 candidates, 3 candidates from BJP, one candidate each from Congress and Aam Aadmi Party have assets of more than Rs 100 crore.
According to the report, among major parties, 3 out of 68 BJP candidates (4%), 1 out of 70 Congress candidates (1%) and 1 out of 70 AAP candidates (1%) declared assets of more than Rs 100 crore. Is. Apart from this, among major parties, BJP has 8 out of 68 candidates (12%), Congress has 7 out of 70 candidates (10%), AAP has 6 out of 70 candidates (9%) and 2 out of 138 independent candidates (1 %) have declared assets of more than Rs 50 crore. The average asset of every candidate in Delhi Assembly elections 2025 is Rs 5.65 crore. Whereas in the 2020 Delhi Assembly elections, the average assets of 672 candidates was Rs 4.34 crore.
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These candidates have the least assets
Among the candidates with the lowest assets are some independent candidates, such as Ashok Kumar, who is contesting from Ambedkar Nagar, and Anita, who is contesting from New Delhi. Both of them have declared assets worth Rs 6,000 and Rs 9,000 respectively. Three candidates have declared their assets as zero.
