Gujarat's Dalit face Mevani "poorest" MLA in new state assembly, ex-BJP minister Saurabh Patel richest: ADR
By Our Representative
Gujarat's Dalit face, Jignesh Mevani,
who fought and won as Independent with Congress support from Vadgam with
a comfortable margin of over 19,000 votes, is the poorest MLA of the
182 legislators who were elected to the state assembly in the just
concluded polls. While Mevani's assets value Rs 10.50 lakh, the richest
MLA (Botad) is former BJP minister Saurabh Patel, having total assets
worth Rs 123.79 crore.
An analysis of assets of
and criminal cases against all the 182 MLAs, carried out by the
Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) on the basis of the affidavits
they submitted before the Election Commission of India, says that out of
the 182 MLAs analysed, 47 (26%) MLAs have declared criminal cases
against themselves, as against 57 (31%) among those who won in the
Gujarat Assembly elections in 2012, 57 (31%)
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