4,001 MLAs own assets worth Rs 54,545 cr: ADR
New Delhi, Aug 1: The total assets of 4,001 sitting MLAs stood at Rs 54,545 crore, which is more than the combined annual budgets for 2023-24 of Nagaland, Mizoram and Sikkim, according to a report.
The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and the National Election Watch (NEW) have extracted the data from affidavits filed by the MLAs prior to contesting their last elections.
The report said of 4,033 legislators, affidavit of 4,001 have been analysed. The average of assets per MLA, belonging to 84 political parties and Independent, is Rs 13.63 crore, it said.
"The total assets of 4,001 sitting MLAs are Rs 54,545 crore. This amount is more than the combined annual budget for 2023-24 of three states, Nagaland, Mizoram and Sikkim, totalling Rs 49,103 crore. The annual budget 2023-24 of Nagaland is Rs 23,086 crore, Mizoram is Rs 14,210 crore and Sikkim is Rs 11,807 crore," the report said.
Among major parties, the average assets per MLA for 1,356 BJP MLAs analysed is Rs 11.97 crore, for 719 Congress MLAs is Rs 21.97 crore, for 227 TMC MLAs is Rs 3.51 crore, for 161 AAP MLAs is Rs 10.20 crore and 146 YSRCP MLAs have average assets worth Rs.23.14 crore.
The total assets of BJP and Congress MLAs is Rs 16,234 crore and Rs 15,798 crore, respectively, which add up to Rs 32,032 crore or 58.73 per cent of the total assets of Rs 54,545 crore pertaining to the sitting MLAs of 84 political parties and Independent MLAs, the report said.
It said that the total assets for 223 MLAs analysed from Karnataka is Rs 14,359 crore, 284 MLAs analysed from Maharashtra is Rs 6,679 crore and 174 MLAs analysed from Andhra Pradesh is Rs 4,914 crore.
The assets of 223 MLAs from Karnataka are more than the individual annual budgets 2023-24 of Mizoram and Sikkim. It is also 26 per cent of the combined total assets of all sitting MLAs Rs 54,545 crores, the report said.
"It is also more than the combined assets of sitting MLAs from Rajasthan, Punjab, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Goa, Meghalaya, Odisha, Assam, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Puducherry, Jharkhand, Sikkim, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura," the ADR said.
The combined assets of sitting MLAs from these 21 states and union territories is Rs 13,976 crore.
The total assets for 59 MLAs analysed from Tripura is Rs 90 crores, 40 MLAs from Mizoram is Rs 190 crore and 60 MLAs from Manipur have total assets worth Rs 225 crore.
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NEET student hangs self in Rajasthan's Sikar
Jaipur (PTI): A student preparing for the NEET examination allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a rented room in Rajasthan's Sikar on Friday, police said.
According to the police, the student allegedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan using his sister's scarf while one sister was attending coaching classes and the other was in the bathroom.
He had appeared in the NEET UG exam 2026, which was cancelled due to paper leak, they said.
Udyog Nagar SHO Rajesh Kumar said that the deceased, identified as Pradeep Meghwal, was a resident of Kanika ki Dhani village in Jhunjhunu's Gudha Gaudji area.
He had been living in a rented room in Sikar's Jaldhari Nagar area with his two sisters while preparing for NEET over the last three years.
His elder sister later found him hanging and informed the landlord and police after bringing him down, officials said.
The SHO said the body was kept at SK Hospital mortuary, and a postmortem had not been conducted.
The student's father, Rajesh Kumar Meghwal, told police that Pradeep's NEET examination had gone well and the family was expecting him to score around 650 marks.
Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot expressed grief over the incident and linked it to anxiety among students after reports of irregularities and paper leaks in NEET 2026.
Pilot said repeated paper leak incidents and cancellation of examinations were affecting students' mental health and demanded a time-bound investigation and strict action against those responsible.
