New Delhi: Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir is the richest among all the candidates in fray for the Lok Sabha election 2019 in Delhi with total assets worth Rs 147 core. The cricketer-turned-politician, who will be making his electoral debut from East Delhi from the BJP party, has shown an income of nearly Rs 12.40 crore in the income tax returns filed for 2017-18.

SirWith an annual income of over Rs 12 crore, cricketer-turned-politician #GautamGambhir is among the richest of all the candidates in fray for the #LokSabhaelection in #Delhi.#Dangal2019

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— IANS Tweets (@ians_india) April 24, 2019

Accompanied our candidate Shri @GautamGambhir to the office of Returning Officer for filing his nomination papers.
East Delhi mein bhi #AayegaToModiHi :) pic.twitter.com/8mgjDevOs0

— Chowkidar Maheish Girri (@MaheishGirri) April 23, 2019

His wife Natasha Gambhir declared an income of Rs 6.15 lakh in the IT returns filed during the same period. Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari has a total of movable and immovable assets worth over Rs 24 crore, an increase of over Rs 4.33 crore from 2014, according to his poll affidavit. He has shown an income of Rs 48.03 lakh in the income tax return for 2017-18 while in the affidavit filed in 2014, he had declared an income of over Rs 85 lakh.