New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is all set to form the government in Delhi in the next few days has the most number of millionaire candidates, who contested the polls this year. A total of 699 candidates had contested the polls this year.

According to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR)’s recent report, the BJP has the number of rich candidates with the highest average wealth of at Rs 22.90 crore. The party is followed by the Congress with Rs 14.41 crore, while AAP’s rich candidates were lowest with an average of Rs 11.70 crore.

Karnail Singh, the BJP candidate from Shakur Basti, who defeated AAP’s Satyendra Jain was the richest........

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