Mirror, Mirror On The Wall Who’s Richest Indian CM Of All?

• At 64, Telangana’s K. Chandrashekar Rao, or KCR, has the most criminal cases.
• Tamil Nadu’s M.K. Stalin and Andhra Pradesh’s Jagan have 47 and 38 cases each.
• None of these cases relates to the most heinous crimes like rape or murder. However, they include charges of criminal intimidation (KCR and Reddy), rioting (KCR), cheating (Reddy), attempts to murder (KCR), and kidnapping (Stalin).
• None of the country’s 10 BJP CMs has a single criminal case against them, their affidavits show.
• Among non-BJP CMs, Rajasthan’s Ashok Gehlot, West Bengal’s Banerjee, Odisha’s Patnaik, Meghalaya’s Conrad Sangma, Nagaland’s Neiphiu Rio, and Puducherry’s Rangaswamy also face no criminal charges.
• Tamang is the only chief minister to have been convicted in a corruption case.

Education level

• Assam’s Himanta Biswa Sarma is the most educated among India’s CMs with a doctorate in philosophy, an MA in political science, and a law degree.
• Tripura’s Manik Saha has a master’s degree in dentistry.
• Delhi’s Arvind Kejriwal and Karnataka’s Basavraj Bommai both have degrees in mechanical engineering.
• Gujarat’s Bhupendra Patel has a diploma in civil engineering.
• Maharashtra’s Eknath Shinde is the least educated of all his peers. He isn’t even a high school graduate.

Number of vehicles owned

• Only eight CMs — Khattar, Vijayan, Gehlot, Stalin, KCR, Adityanath, Dhami, and Banerjee — own no vehicles of their own, the affidavits show.
• Andhra CM Reddy has four vehicles to his name —  three Scorpios and a BMW. For these, he writes in his affidavit: “Bulletproof vehicles owned by others, are registered in my name (though not owned or invested by me) in view of (the) stipulation by Ministry of Home Affairs”.
• Khandu owns the highest number of vehicles — seven in all, worth Rs 1.5 crore. These are a Tata Truck, two Ford Endeavours, one Toyota Fortuner, one Bolero, and one Tata dumper.
• Nagaland’s Neiphiu Rio has the next set of most expensive vehicles. His three — a Maruti Alto, a BMW MINI, and a Land Cruiser Prado — cost over Rs 1 crore.
• Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and his wife Mukteshwari Baghel, both of whom list “agriculture” as their profession, own one tractor each.

Immovable assets

• Odisha’s Naveen Patnaik has inherited the most property, the affidavits show. Patnaik inherited Rs 60 crore worth of immovable property.
• Puducherry’s Rangaswamy at Rs 38 crore.
• Immovable property includes residential and commercial buildings, as well as agricultural and non-agricultural land.  Having already inherited crores worth of property, however, neither Rangaswamy nor Patnaik have acquired any of their own, the affidavits show.
• Others who haven’t acquired any such new property are Tripura’s Manik Saha, who inherited Rs 10.8 crore, and Haryana’s Khattar, who was bequeathed only Rs 33 lakh.
• Eight CMs who inherited nothing have made fortunes for themselves.
• KCR leads this list with assets worth Rs 12 crore. He’s followed by Eknath Shinde (Rs 4.47 crore), Basavraj Bommai (Rs. 3.77 crore), Bhupendra Patel (Rs 3.04 crore), and Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Rs 2.83 crore).
• Mizoram CM Zoramthanga, Karnataka’s Bommai, and Jharkhand’s Soren, all of whom inherited nothing, now own immovable assets worth over Rs 1 crore.
• Three chief ministers who own no immovable property are Adityanath, Banerjee, and Sarma. However, Sarma’s wife Riniki Bhuyan has immovable assets worth Rs 4 crore to her name, the affidavits show.