Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP's Naveen Jindal, AAP's Sushil Gupta among 3 richest candidates in Phase 6

With assets amounting to ₹1241 Crore (BJP) leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal is the richest candidate in the fray in Phase 6 of Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Jindal, who from the Congress party in March thus year, is a candidate from Kurukshetra seat in Haryana.

The sixth phase will be held on May 25 with voters in 57 Lok Sabha seats spread across seven states casting their ballot.

Jindal, who is the Chairman of (JSPL), had won the Kurukshetra seat in 2009, on a Congress ticket. He lost the seat in 2014 and did not contest in 2019. of the BJP, currently chief minister of Haryana, won the seat in 2019. 

Billionaire Jindal is up against Indian National Lok Dal's (INLD) Abhay Chautala and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)'s . The AAP is contesting the Kurukshetra in accordance with with the Congress party in the INDIA bloc. The Congress has fielded candidates on the remaining nine seats of Haryana. 

AAP's Gupta owns assets worth ₹169 Crore and is the third richest candidate in the fray in the sixth phase of Lok Sabah elections, according to the analysis of affidavits by election watchdog, (ADR). 

Gupta is a former AAP of parliament (MP) from and had unsuccessfully contested for the 2013 Delhi assembly election from the Moti Nagar seat on the Congress ticket. Gupta is a known educationist and businessman. His institutions serve 15,000 students across Delhi and Haryana. He also owns Maharaja Agrasen Hospitals and medical colleges in the Delhi-NCR. 

With assets worth ₹482 Crore, Santrupt Misra, the Biju Janata Dal candidate from Cuttack, Odisha is the second richest candidate in the fray in sixth phase. Misra, the 59-year-old group director of human resources in the , quit his in February to join the BJD.

Out of the 866 candidates in Phase