So far richest candidate is Deepak Bhardwaj of BSP

INDIAN ELECTION NEWS: So far the richest candidate for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections is from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). Deepak Bhardwaj filed his nominations papers from the West Delhi constituency and declared assets worth Rs 600 crore.

Deepak Bhardwaj belongs to Mayawati's party and he came on a tractor to the Rampura election office in West Delhi to file his nomination.

Bhardwaj is 58-year-old and owns businesses in real estate, hotels and also education. In Dwarka he runs a school and has plans to open 2 more schools in Dwarka and Dhansa. Both the places are in West Delhi.

Bhardwaj is a resident of Lajwanti Garden in West Delhi and owns a township project called Deepganga in Hardwar. He has a hotel on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway called Niteshpunj Hotel Complex.

The previous richest candidate declared assets worth Rs 514 crore. He is a Mumbai-based businessman and has filed his nomination as an Independent from Surendranagar. 53-years-old Khimji Patadia has declared assets worth Rs 514 crore. His assets are mainly in jewellery and real estate.

The other in rich series are Congress’s L Rajagopal from Vijaywada (Rs 299 crore), BSP’s Karan Singh Tanwar from South Delhi (Rs 150 crore) and SP’s Abu Azmi from Mumbai NW (Rs 122 crore).

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First phase of Lok Sabha polls begins amid tight security

INDIAN ELECTION NEWS: The first phase of polling out of five of elections to Lok Sabha has begun on Thursday on a moderate note. This phase of election polls will decide the fate of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi and Yashwant Sinha and TRS president K Chandrasekar Rao.

The voting began in 124 constituencies that is spread across 15 states and 2 union territories. In most places the polling will close at 1700 hrs and in naxal-infested areas at 1500 hrs.

More than 14.31 crore voters are eligible to cast their ballot across 1.85 lakh polling stations in the 124 constituencies set up by the Election Commission and secured by tens of thousands of police personnel.

In today’s poll 154 assembly segments in Andhra Pradesh and 70 in Orissa have also been included.

All over is 20 seats in Kerala, 11 in Chhattisgarh and 2 each in Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, 13 out of 40 seats in Bihar, 16 out of 80 in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra 13 (48), Andhra Pradesh 22 (42), Jharkhand 6 (14), Orissa 10 (21), Assam 3 (14), Manipur 1 (2) and Jammu and Kashmir 1 (6). Single seats in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Mizoram and Nagaland are also being covered in this first phase of election.

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