The 2024 Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases starting on April 19 and concluding on June 1. With just over a week to go before the mega election cycle kicks off in India, findings by the Association for Democratic Rights, a private election monitoring group, reveal that one in every three candidates is a crorepati. However, the same group has also revealed that several candidates have declared zero assets.
Of the 10 candidates who have declared zero assets in their election affidavits, eight are from Tamil Nadu, while two are from Maharashtra.
The candidates with zero assets:
S. no
Name
Party
Constituency
Movable Assets (in ₹)
Immovable assets (in ₹)
Total assets (in ₹)
1
Arvind Shivaji Tandekar
IND
Ramtek (SC)
0
0
0
2
Kivinsuka Virendra Suryavanshi
Desh Janhit Party
Nagpur
0
0
0
3
Devendran R
IND
Chennai South
0
0
0
4
Vijayan K
All India Jananayaka Makkal Kazhagam
Arakkonam
0
0
0
5
Pp Jayaprakash
IND
Vellore
0
0
0
6
Albert Francis Xavier S
IND
Krishnagiri
0
0
0
7
Sathiyaraj. N
IND
Villupuram (SC)
0
0
0
8
Gunasekaran. K
IND
Villupuram (SC)
0
0
0
9
R. Anbin Amudhan
IND
Tiruchirappalli
0
0
0
10
 Suresh
IND
Tirunelveli
0
0
0
Apart from the aforementioned candidates with zero assets, here’s another list of people contesting the Lok Sabha polls after having declared the lowest assets.
Candidates with lowest assets:
S. no
Name
Party
Constituency
Movable Assets (in ₹)
Immovable assets (in ₹)
Total assets (in ₹)
1
Ponraj K
IND
Thoothukkudi
320
0
320
2
Kartik Gendlalji Doke
IND
Ramtek (SC)
500
0
500
3
Suriyamuthu
IND
Chennai North
500
0
500
4
G Dhamodharan
IND
Arani
1000
0
1000
5
J. Sebastin
SUCI C
Chennai North
1500
0
1500
6
S Sathish Kumar
IND
Puducherry
2000
0
2000
7
Suresh K
IND
Dindigul
2000
0
2000
8
Palanisamy K
IND
Dindigul
2000
0
2000
9
P. Govindarasu
IND
Tiruchirappalli
2000
0
2000
10
Krishnan S
IND
Thoothukkudi
3500
0
3500
Now, speaking of wealth and assets, about 450 candidates in the first phase are crorepatis. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leads the list with 69 such candidates, followed by the Congress (49), All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) (35), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) (21), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) (18), and Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) with four each.Â
Among these, AIADMK candidates have the highest average assets at Rs 35.61 crore, followed by DMK with Rs 31.22 crore, Congress with Rs 27.79 crore, and BJP with Rs 22.37 crore.
