264 ''Crorepati'' Candidates Enter Assam Assembly Contest

The richest candidate in the arena is the United Peoples Party, Liberal (UPPL)s Kokrajhar West (ST) contestant Manaranjan Brahma, with total assets worth Rs 268 crore.

A total of 264 ''crorepati'' candidates, comprising 27.90 per cent of the final 946 contestants are engaged in the battle of ballots in Assam for 126 assembly constituencies in three phases. The richest candidate in the arena is the United Peoples Party, Liberal (UPPL)s Kokrajhar West (ST) contestant Manaranjan Brahma, with total assets worth Rs 268 crore. He is followed by Independent candidate Rahul Roy from Udharbond with assets worth Rs 136 crore and AIUDF's Jamunamukh nominee Sirajuddin Ajmal with assets worth Rs 111 crore, according to the affidavits filed by them. All three candidates have shown their source of income from business with Brahma's wife filing her source as agricultural income.