YS Jagan Mohan Reddy worth Rs 375 crore, Naidu assets Rs 20.5 crore

Vijayawada/TIRUPATI: YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is way ahead of his bitter political rival, TD president and AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, in terms of wealth.

While Mr Reddy has declared assets worth Rs 375.19 crore, Mr Naidu’s affidavit, filed on his behalf by P.S. Muni Ratnam, said to be his chief assistant, for the Kuppam Assembly segment in Chittoor district, says his total assets are worth about Rs 20.5 crore.

In fact, Mr Naidu is also behind Jana Sena chief K. Pawan Kalyan whose election affidavit filed on Thursday said that he owned assets amounting to Rs 52 crore. Mr Kalyan has movable assets worth Rs 12.04 crore and immovable assets of Rs 40.81 crore.

Mr Reddy also faces more criminal cases, 31 in all, that are serious in nature, a majority of them alleging financial fraud.

Mr Naidu mentioned that he had a case pending against him, at the Dharmabad police station in Maharashtra, regarding his protest against the Babli dam.