BJP candidate from Dindoshi Assembly constituency, Mohit Kamboj (30), is the richest candidate in the fray for the Maharashtra Assembly polls with assets worth Rs 353.53 crore, according to the affidavit filed by him with the state Election Commission. His affidavit states he cleared his first year of B.Com in 2003 and has business interests in real estate and bullion. The second richest candidate among the total of 1,356 candidates in the state, Mangal Prabhat Lodha (58), also belongs to the BJP. Lodha, who is seeking re-election from the plush Malabar Hill constituency, has declared assets worth Rs 198.61 crore. A law graduate, Lodha is a construction magnate. Samajwadi Party’s state unit president Abu Azmi, who has been fielded from the Mankhurd constituency, has declared assets worth Rs 156.11 crore. The candidate with the least amount of assets declared to the EC is Kidappil Narayanan Keshav, of the Communist Party of India (M). Keshav (46), who is contesting from the Andheri (West) constituency in Mumbai, has declared assets worth Rs 15,934 to the EC. A social worker by profession, he is a secondary school passout from Kerala. The second poorest candidate is gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli’s daughter Geeta Gawli, who has declared assets worth Rs 1.29 crore to the EC. Geeta, a corporator in the BMC, has been fielded by the Akhil Bhartiya Sena. She is a Class X passout. Senior Congress leader and former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has declared assets worth Rs 13.82 crore, while NCP leader and former deputy CM Ajit Pawar has declared assets worth Rs 38.83 crore. NCP leader and former state PWD Minister Chhagan Bhujbal has declared assets worth worth Rs 21.91 crore. State BJP president Devendra Fadnavis has declared assets worth Rs 1.97 crore to the state Election Commission.
