Bhagwant Mann Poorer Than Most CMs in India; Punjab CM's Assets Among Lowest 5 Nationally

Bhagwant Mann Assets: ADR/National Election Watch report shows Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann’s ₹1.97 crore assets rank 27th of 31 CMs nationally — far below Haryana and HP’s Chief Ministers, and a pending case.

North Desk Correspondent

Chandigarh, July 28

Bhagwant Mann Assets: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has declared total assets of just ₹1.97 crore, placing him 27th out of 31 sitting Chief Ministers across India’s states and Union Territories — one of the five poorest CMs in the country by declared wealth, according to a fresh report released by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch on Monday.

The report, based on self-sworn election affidavits filed with the Election Commission, paints a stark picture when Mann’s numbers are set against his peers. The average Chief Minister in India today holds assets worth ₹118.07 crore. Mann’s declared wealth is a fraction of that — not even 2% of the national CM average.

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Where Mann stands in the pecking order

Bhagwant Mann Assets: Only four Chief Ministers in the country declared fewer assets than Mann:

Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh) — ₹1.54 crore

Bhajan Lal Sharma (Rajasthan) — ₹1.46 crore

Suvendu Adhikari (West Bengal) — ₹85.87 lakh

Omar Abdullah (Jammu & Kashmir) — ₹55.24 lakh (lowest of all 31 CMs)

At the other end of the spectrum, Karnataka’s D.K. Shivakumar tops the list with assets exceeding ₹1,413 crore — over 700 times what Mann has declared.

Mann’s liabilities stand at ₹30.35 lakh, and his declared self-income is ₹18.34 lakh.

Bhagwant Mann Assets:The neighbourhood comparison

The gap becomes sharper when Mann is placed next to the two other Chief Ministers in North India:

Himachal Pradesh’s Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu: ₹7.82 crore — nearly 4 times Mann’s assets

Haryana’s Nayab Singh Saini: ₹5.81 crore — nearly 3 times Mann’s assets

Punjab’s CM, by this measure, is the financial outlier among the three North Indian neighbours — by a wide margin.

Education: one of only three CMs without a graduate degree

The ADR report also breaks down Chief Ministers by educational qualification. Of the 31 CMs analysed, only 2 are 10th pass and 3 are 12th pass — the lowest qualification bands in the dataset. Mann falls into the 12th-pass category, alongside just two other sitting CMs nationally, in a list otherwise dominated by graduates, postgraduates and doctorate holders (19 of 31 CMs hold a postgraduate degree or higher).

A pending criminal case, tagged “serious”

The affidavit data also flags one pending criminal case against Mann, classified by ADR as a “serious” case under its own criteria (offences carrying five-plus years’ punishment, non-bailable offences, electoral offences, etc.).

The case stems from an FIR registered at PS North Chandigarh, currently before the Honourable CJM Chandigarh. The charges listed are:

IPC 147 — Rioting

IPC 149 — Unlawful assembly, common object

IPC 332 — Voluntarily causing hurt to deter a public servant from duty

IPC 353 — Assault/criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of duty

IPC 188 — Disobedience of an order promulgated by a public servant

The case dates to October 2020 (before Mann became Chief Minister in March 2022) and falls in the window of the farmer agitation period, though the report itself does not specify the context of the incident beyond the FIR particulars.

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