Nearly 50 newlyelected members to Rajya Sabha have declared total assets of over Rs 1,250 crore with liquor baron Vijay Mallya topping the chart having properties worth over Rs 615 crore.

According to an analysis, independent candidate from Karnataka, Mallya, has declared assets worth over Rs 615 crore followed by properties worth nearly Rs 190 crore by Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) Yalamanchili Satyanarayana Chowdary from Andhra Pradesh and Rs 82 crore declared by Kanwar Deep Singh, a Jharkhand Mukti Morhca MP. Chowdary is a known industrialist from South India, associated with Sujana Group of Companies, while Singh is a Chandigarh-based known business tycoon.