All the Prime Minister's (Poor) Men
THE Prime Minister of India is moderately rich with total assets of Rs. 5 Crores. His senior minister and custodian of India's Finance, Pranab Da is worth only 3 Crores, while the poorest minister AK Antony has assets worth just 35 Lakhs. P. Chidambaram is more comfortably placed at 25 Crores. Poor SM Krishna is worth only 4 Crores, but he could afford to stay in a five star hotel in Delhi for about two months – the room would cost half a lakh per day. Kapil Sibal is well placed with 37 Crores. You think rajahs are rich? Jyotiraditya Scindia is worth only 27 Crores, while the ordinary looking Kamal Nath has about 260 Crores and Prafulla Patel is worth over a hundred crores.
P. Chidamabaram owns a cycle worth Rs. 1239/- and keeps good health with a treadmill costing 39,000/-. His wife Nalini Chidambaram owns typewriter worth 24,811/- and CD ROM worth Rs. 9,036/-.