Jagan Mohan Reddy richest Chief Minister in India, Mamata Banerjee’s assets less than a crore

The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir does not have a chief minister currently.

Arunanchal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu with over Rs 163 crore worth assets came second behind Jagan Mohan Reddy and was followed by Odisha's Naveen Pattnaik with over Rs 63 crore.

West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee (over Rs 15 lakh), Kerala's Pinarayi Vijayan (over Rs 1 crore) and Haryana's Manohar Lal (over Rs 1 crore) had the lowest assets among the CMs.

Chief Ministers of Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra, K Chandrashekar Rao, Basavaraj Bommai and Eknath Shinde had the most liabilities according to their affidavits at Rs 8.88 crore, Rs 4.99 crore and Rs 3.74 crore, respectively.

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Delhi's Arvind Kejriwal had assets worth over Rs 3 crore, the report said.

On the legal front, 13 of the 30 CMs have serious criminal cases including those related to murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping and criminal intimidation, which entail over five years of imprisonment.

On the education front, one chief minister each had a diploma, doctorate and a class 10 pass. Three CMs had cleared class 12 while 11 were graduates, four were graduate professionals and nine were post-graduates.

Kerala's Pinarayi Vijayan was the oldest chief minister at 77, nearly double that of the youngest, 39-year-old Pema Khandu of Arunachal Pradesh. There are nine CMs in the 51-60 and 61-70 age-group whereas four fell in the 71-80 age bracket and seven were in the 41-50 age group.