Bihar’s Water Resources Development Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh lalan is the richest Minister in Nitish Kumar cabinet while his colleague and Excise and Prohibition Minister Abdul Jalil Mastan is poorest.
As per the tradition all the Ministers including Chief Minister Nitish Kumar have submitted their details of properties, assets and cash for the year 2016 on the first day of 2017. Their details have been put on the official website of Bihar Government.
lalan has about Rs 60 lakh in four bank accounts and a fixed deposit of Rs 1 crore besides an investment of Rs 2.5 lakh in a private hotel. He possesses one pistol and one rifle. lalan has a total of moveable and immovable properties worth Rs 5.77 crore which is only 57 lakh more than what he had declared previous year.
Mastan has a cash of Rs 30,000 and Rs 1.62 lakh in one bank account and Rs 2,018 in another. He has no land or house and only an ancestral home in Madhepura. He has one car, one mobile phone and one TV set and his dependents have 200 gram gold ornaments.
CM Nitish Kumar has moveable properties worth Rs 16.49 lakh including Rs 75,459 in two back accounts which is a minor increase from the previous year. He has immovable assets worth Rs 40 lakh which is a flat in Dwarka, Delhi which he bought in 2004 for Rs 13.38 lakh and he also owns ten cows and five calves. In comparison his only son Nishant Kumar is richer with assets worth Rs 2.36 crore which included the properties of his late mother. Nitish has an outstanding loan of Rs 3.79 lakh which was earlier Rs 6.44 lakh. He had take loan from Bihar legislative Council, of which he is member since 2006, to purchase Ford Eco Sports car. last year he paid Rs 2.63 lakh towards the loan.
Deputy CM Tejashwi Prasad Yadav ahs total assets worth over Rs 1.75 crore, Rs 17.33 lakh in bank accounts, Rs 5.38 lakh worth shares, Rs 20.47 lakh capital investment, ornaments worth Rs 2.62 lakh and Rs 80,000 in hand. He also has an outstanding debt of Rs 28.66 lakh which he took from Central Bihar Rural Bank. In 2015-16 he paid Rs 92,951 as taxes.
His elder brother and Health Minister Tej Pratap Yadav has Rs 13.55 lakh in bank accounts and Rs 85,000 in cash. He possesses a car worth Rs 29.43 lakh and a foreign made motor cycle priced atRs 15.46 lakh. like his younger brother he too has an outstanding loan of Rs 18.54 lakh.
There are some Ministers who are cashless or have not mentioned the amount in hand like Agriculture Minister Ram Vichar Rai and Scheduled Caste Welfare Minister Santosh Kumar Nirala. While Rai has deposited Rs 25 lakh and Nirala has over Rs 6 lakh in bank accounts. Disaster Management Minister Chandrashekhar has the highest debt of Rs 49.49 lakh.