The richest candidate in the Lok Sabha elections — Ramesh Kumar Sharma, an Independent from the Patliputra seat in Bihar who declared over Rs 1,107 crore — lost his deposit as he could manage only 1,558 votes.
Of the five richest candidates — all from the Congress butfor Sharma — three won the elections.
Sharma could garner only 0.14 per cent of the total votes,fourth from below among the 26 candidates in the fray for the Pataliputra LokSabha seat.
Ram Kripal Yadav of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won theseat with over 5 lakh (47.28 per cent) votes. Rashtriya Janata Dal’s MishaBharti, daughter of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad, came second with4.7 lakh (43.63 per cent) votes.
The second richest candidate in 2019 elections was KondaVishweshwar Reddy (Congress) with Rs 895 crore assets. He gave a tough fight inthe Chevella constituency, Telangana, but lost to Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) candidate G. Ranjith Reddy by 14,317 votes.
The third richest in this Lok Sabha race was Nakul Nath, sonof Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, with assets worth Rs 660 crore. ACongress candidate from the Chhindwara constituency of Madhya Pradesh, he wonthe seat by over 35,000 votes.
The fourth richest, also from the Congress, wasVasanthakumar H with over Rs 417 crore assets. He won the Kanyakumari seat inTamil Nadu with about three lakh votes.Fifth richest candidate, Jyotiraditya Scindia ofthe Congress, declared assets worth over Rs 374 crore. He lost the electionwith a margin of over 1 lakh votes from the Guna parliamentary seat in MadhyaPradesh to Krishna Pal Singh of the BJP.