The Crorepati Club of Indian Politicians Grows

The man hailed to be the best in governance and is being considered for the prestigious Gates Innovation Award, Nitish Kumar is leading by example as he goes ahead with his transparency drive in politics.  However, while accepting his efforts to be clean and progressive, it should also be noted that India’s club of crorepati ministers is increasingly becoming wider. The latest details made public on the wealth of Bihar ministers, the number of crorepati ministers soared and has more than doubled since the previous year.

While there were only five crorepatis last year, the new list reveals that 12 out of 29 ministers in the state government have made it to the list this year. Nitish Kumar’s call for transparency did not seem to have impressed all as 130 MLAs did not meet the December 31 deadline set for declaring their assets.  The Bihar Chief Minister has 6,15,662 in bank balance, a flat worth Rs/40 lakh in New Delhi and a car as moveable assets. Nitish Kumar also has 30 tolas of gold and five kg silver utensils in addition to the decleared two cows and three calves worth 83,000. His son Nishant has declared moveable assets worth 7360126.28 and land worth Rs 42,69,404. Cumulative assets of both Nitish and Nishant worth 1,62,45,192, up from 1,50,64,199 last year. The Deputy CM of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi has wealth worth 1,17,33,228 adding his wife’s and son’s assets. His assets were worth 1,06,80,314 a year back.

Last December when Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan asked his ministers to declare their assets, only 40 percent of 40 ministers revealed their wealth details.

Rags to Riches Story Of A Govt Clerk

Dream of winning huge amount of money at a time is pretty nice but only in imagination. But for some lucky one, dream can actually come true. The story of a man from Bihar named Sushil Kumar is the best example for it. He has worked hard to make his dream of winning 5 crore has finally come true.

Sushil Kumar from Motihari district of Bihar has become the first person to win 5 crore on the popular game show Kaun Banega Crorepati. The first thing he remembered as soon as he won 5 crore is that, he would every time sneak into his neighbor’s house to catch the glimpse of this popular show when it started many years ago as he didn’t have a TV of his own at that time.

Twenty -Seven year old Sushil said he had never imagined that he would reach to the final question in KBC. He earlier worked as a teacher and computer operator in government’s Mahatma Gandhi Scheme and was earning six thousand per month before he appeared in this popular show. He comes from a big joint family with five brothers, five nieces and a nephew.

Like most of the television viewers, even Sushil is one of the biggest fans of KBC. At home, when he was watching this show he was giving the right answers up to maximum 50 lakhs with the help of his own merit. Keeping that in mind as he said he sat on the hot seat assuming that he cannot go beyond 50 lakh with the help of his own knowledge.

His knowledge of competitive exams, magazines and news papers helped him to play well in this game. There were still two life lines remaining when he reached the final question. Though he was pretty sure on the answer for that final question, he did not take any chances of answering that question on his own and that was the one main reason why he made use of both those life lines for that final question.

Even after he has won this huge amount, his family is going towards mixed feeling, one being happy for his success and the second is that they are scared about his return to his home town. They are nervous because many notorious people can ask for extortion and abduction for ransom. According to some sources his family members are now scared for his abduction.

Currently, Sushil is staying in Mumbai to complete the paperwork; there is no disclosure of the date of his return to Motihari. Anyhow, people back there are very much excited about this return and there is huge crowd gathering everyday near his home from the time he has become the winner. And they have not asked for police protection yet.

In the midst of all these, when Gaurav Malani from Economic times, asked Sushil how he is feeling on his victory, Sushil excitedly answered that he is very happy for his success and he is sensing the attitude of the society that is changing towards him for his historic win. Sushil is currently preparing for his IAS exams.

After Sushil , another person, Anil Kumar Sinha form the City of Patna, Bihar won 1 crore in the same show. Anil is a quiz enthusiast, works as a manager in a prominent bank in Kolkata at present and he is planning to construct a nursing home and a trauma center in Patna with the prize money. Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar has congratulated both the winners of his state.

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