New Delhi: Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, the TDP candidate from Guntur, is set to become the richest winner with his assets valued at Rs 5,700 crore. Pemmasani is leading by over 3.3 lakh votes.
BJP’s Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, who contested from the Chevella Lok Sabha seat in the neighbouring Telangana, the second wealthiest candidate with assets worth Rs 4,568 crore, is also poised to win. Reddy is ahead with a comfortable margin of over 1.5 lakh votes.
Industrialist Naveen Jindal, the BJP candidate from Haryana’s Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat, declared assets worth Rs 1,241 crore and is leading with over 30,000 votes.
TDP candidate from Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, Prabhakar Reddy Vemireddy, declared assets worth Rs 716 crore and is leading by over 2.3 lakh votes, turning out to be another wealthy candidate staring at victory.
Union Minister and BJP candidate from Guna in Madhya Pradesh, Jyotiraditya M Scindia, had declared assets worth Rs 424 crore. He won with a margin of 5,40,929 votes.
Actor-turned-politician and BJP’s Mathura candidate, Hema Malini, declared assets worth Rs 278 crore.
Scindia won by a margin of over 5 lakh votes while Hema Malini is leading by 2.8 lakh votes. She won with a majority of 2,93,407 votes.
There were 2,572 crorepati candidates in the fray for the Lok Sabha election.
