New Delhi: On the ultimate day of 2023, Bihar’s ministers unveiled the specifics of their belongings, bringing transparency to their monetary standings earlier than the general public eye. Notably, Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav has emerged with extra cash holdings than Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Whereas Nitish Kumar reported Rs 22,552 in money, Tejashwi Yadav, son of former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav, declared the next sum of Rs 50,000 in money. Tejashwi additionally boasts deposits exceeding Rs 54 lakh throughout numerous banks.
As per data uploaded on the Bihar authorities’s web site, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar possesses movable and immovable belongings valued at Rs 1.64 crore. His belongings embody a Ford EcoSport automobile value Rs 11.32 lakh, two gold rings totaling Rs 1.28 lakh, a silver ring, and a group of 13 cows, 10 calves, a treadmill, an train cycle, and a microwave oven.
The small print, made public on December 31, lengthen to different members of Nitish Kumar’s cupboard. The Chief Minister holds Rs 22,552 in money and round Rs 49,202 deposited in a number of banks. The Nitish authorities mandates that each one cupboard ministers disclose their belongings and liabilities yearly on the final day of the calendar yr.
The most recent disclosures reveal that a number of ministers surpass the Chief Minister when it comes to wealth. In response to data from the Cupboard Secretariat Division’s web site, Nitish Kumar’s movable belongings quantity to Rs 16.84 lakh, with immovable belongings totaling Rs 1.48 crore. Notably, the Chief Minister owns a sole residential flat in a cooperative housing society in Dwarka, New Delhi.
Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister, declared Rs 50,000 in money, whereas his spouse, Rajshree, holds Rs 1 lakh in money. Tej Pratap Yadav, Tejashwi’s elder brother and one other Deputy Chief Minister, possesses Rs 98,562 in money and a mixed whole of movable and immovable belongings valued at about Rs 3.58 crore.
Different ministers who’ve disclosed their belongings embody Sumit Kumar Singh, Sunil Kumar, Anita Devi, Jitendra Kumar Rai, Ratnesh Sada, Jayant Raj, Jama Khan, Murari Prasad Gautam, Shamim Ahmed, Shahnawaz, Sanjay Kumar Jha, Sheela Kumari, Kumar Sarvjeet, and Madan Sahni, amongst others.