New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) You may be erstwhile royals, but still be poles apart during polls - not only in terms of ideology but also wealth. That is what the two main candidates in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi constituency have shown.
Congress leader and five-time former chief minister Virbhadra Singh, who belongs to the former royal family of Bushehr, is far ahead of his rival candidate Maheshwar Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in terms of wealth.
Virbhadra Singh's wealth is nearly Rs.180 million more than that of Maheshwar Singh, three-time MP and scion of the erstwhile Kullu ruling family.
Bushehr's royal couple - Virbhadra Singh and his wife and MP Pratibha Singh - are jointly worth Rs.220 million, while Kullu's royal couple - Maheshwar Singh and Meera Kumari - is jointly worth Rs.28 million.
The dominance of royal candidates in Himachal Pradesh politics was broken in 1977 when Ganga Singh Thakur, a Janata Party candidate, won the polls from Mandi.
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