Unemployed Kanhaiya Kumar Earned Rs 8.5 Lakh In 2 Years

Patna: Former JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, contesting as a CPI candidate from the Begusarai Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, has a doctorate but is unemployed. He has neither agricultural land nor a vehicle in his name and has earned Rs. 8.5 lakhs in two years through his writings, he has said in the affidavit filed along with his nomination papers. Kanhaiya Kumar, who spoke against the ruling BJP-led NDA and its ideological agenda, has declared Rs. 8.5 lakh as his income for two years through freelance writing, appearing as a guest lecturer in different universities and the sale of his book “Bihar to Tihar”.

Unlike his two main rivals in Begusarai, Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Giriraj Singh and the RJD candidate Tanweer Hasan, Kanhaiya Kumar is much poorer as far as his movable and immovable assets are concerned. According to the affidavit, he has Rs. 24,000 cash in hand and investments and savings amounting to Rs. 357,848. (IANS)

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