'Mysuru Maharaja' doesn't have house, car or land; he has assets worth ...

Mysuru Maharaja' Yaduveer Wadiyar 'does not own house, car or land'

Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, the scion of the erstwhile royal family of Mysuru who is contesting from Mysore-Kodagu on a BJP ticket, does not own a house, land or even a car, according to his election affidavit.

Wadiyar, also known as YKC, revealed details of his assets and liabilities while submitting his nomination papers on Monday.

The papers revealed that he has assets worth nearly Rs 5 crore while his wife Trishika Kumari Wadiyar and a dependent person own assets worth Rs 1.04 crore and Rs 3.64 crore respectively.

Besides the assets, YKC owns gold and silver jewellery worth Rs 3.39 crore while his wife possesses precious metals worth Rs 1.02 crore, the papers showed.

The 32-year-old successor of the erstwhile Mysuru royal family will be in a direct fight with Congress candidate M Lakshmana, who is a Congress spokesperson in Karnataka.

BJP had named YKC last month in its candidate list for Karnataka last month, fieling the titular head of the Mysore royal family from the Mysore-Kodagu constituency. He will replace two-term sitting MP Pratap Simha.

He’s not the first in his family to step into politics. His predecessor Srikantadatta Narasimharaja (SDNR) Wadiyar contested elections in both Congress and BJP tickets between 1984 and 2004. He won four times (all Congress) and lost twice (one each from Congress and BJP)

YKC was adopted by Pramoda Devi Wadiyar a little over a year after her husband SDNR died in 2013. YKC, an economics graduate from the University of Massachusetts was crowned the new ‘maharaja’ of the 600-year-old Wadiyar dynasty, in 2015 at the age of 23.

(With inputs from agencies)