Congress nominee Manash Bora is the richest among the 18 contestants for the prestigious Gauhati Lok Sabha constituency that BJP vice president Bijoya Chakravarty is fighting to retain for the second consecutive term.
According to Bora's affidavit, he has an income of Rs 23,80,372 and moveable assets of Rs 2.4 crore and immovable assets worth Rs 1.11 crore.
Polling for the Gauhati Lok Sabha seat would be held on April 24.
33-year old Manash, a contractor and son of Assam minister Akon Bora, has among his moveable assets a Harley Davidson motor bike worth Rs 20,85,126.00, seven road rollers, excavators and dump trucks, a sedan car, an India-made motorcycle, ornaments, bank deposits and insurance policies.
The affidavit stated that this law graduate's immoveable assets included agricultural land and three plots of non agricultural land with residential buildings in Guwahati worth a current market value of Rs 1.11 crore.
On the other hand, BJP's 75-year old Bijoya Chakravarty, whom Manash publicly refers to as 'Aita' (grandmother), has an income of Rs six lakh as per her affidavit and owns no moveable assets or vehicle.
Chakraborty, a former Mangaldoi college teacher and social worker with a masters degree in English literature from Benaras Hindu University has only moveabale assets of jewellery, bank deposits and cash in hand totalling Rs 13,60,369.
The other major contestants in the fray and AGP former Rajya Sabha member Birendra Prasad Baishya (57) has an income of Rs 7.62 lakh, owns moveable property worth Rs 79.73 lakh.
The other noted contestant is yesteryears Assamese film hero Biju Phukan trying his electoral fortune for the first time as a Trinamool Congress nominee.
The 66-year old actor with an income of Rs 2.70 lakh has moveable assets worth Rs 3.05 lakh but has no house, flat or land, owns no vehicle, no investments in the forms of bank deposits, insurance policies, shares or postal savings instruments.
