Hyderabad: As the Telangana Assembly polls approach, voters are curiously tracking the net worth of their legislators.
A report by Telangana Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), which was released after analysing the self-sworn affidavits of all MLAs who were elected to the Telangana Assembly in 2018, revealed that the average assets of MLAs saw a significant rise between 2014 and 2018.
Here is a chart explaining party-wise increase in average assets of re-elected MLAs.
| Parties | Number of MLAs | Average assets in 2018 | Average assets in 2014 | Rise in average assets | Rise in average assets (Percentage) |
| TRS | 64 | 16,24,09,466 | 9,13,20,534 | 7,10,88,932 | 77.85 |
| AIMIM | 7 | 10,84,03,096 | 7,63,34,626 | 3,20,68,470 | 42.01 |
| INC | 2 | 3,74,35,780 | 3,03,37,690 | 70,98,090 | 23.4 |
| TDP | 1 | 1,40,57,827 | 60,16,785 | 80,41,042 | 133.64 |
| BJP | 1 | 3,31,17,897 | 9,52,738 | 3,21,65,159 | 3376.08 |
Among various political parties in Telangana, BJP had only MLA whose assets saw the highest jump. The average assets of the BJP MLA in 2014 was Rs 9 lakh, which increased to Rs 3 crore in 2018, marking a 3376.08 hike.
In the case of TRS, the average assets of MLAs increased by 77.85 percent.
