Patna: One of the six Rajya Sabha candidates - all of whom are going to be elected unopposed - is no less than a "king". All the others pale into insignificance before him.

It comes as no surprise that Mahendra Prasad, 78, fielded by chief minister Nitish Kumar's JDU, is addressed as King Mahendra, and rightly so. He is worth Rs 4,039 crore, of which Rs 4,010 crore is in movable assets and Rs 29 crore in immovable assets. His wife Uma Devi has assets and property worth Rs 39 crore.

While filing income tax returns in 2016-17, he pegged his income at Rs 303.5 crore and that of his spouse at Rs 2.64 crore. However, he keeps just Rs 2 lakh cash in hand, while his wife keeps around Rs 3 lakh.

A graduate in arts from Patna University, Mahendra, who has established three pharmaceutical companies - Aristo Pharmaceuticals, Aristo Laboratories and Mapra - will become the richest MP from Bihar and arguably the entire Parliament. This will be his seventh term in Rajya Sabha. He was a member of the Lok Sabha from 1980-84.

The native of Govindpur village under Ghosi block in Jehanabad district, is also more than a match for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is when it comes to visiting foreign countries. The Centre calls Mahendra the most widely travelled parliamentarian; he has visited 205 countries. The pharmaceutical tycoon doesn't believe in acquiring much real estate, but he and his wife own some agricultural land in Jehanabad, a commercial building in Calcutta's Shakespeare Sarani and at Lower Parel, Juhu, Bandra and Andheri in Mumbai. They own around 1,375 gm of gold and silver coins worth 750 gm.

Though Mahendra has no case pending against him, he has a revolver, a rifle and a double barrel gun apart from their ammunition. He or his wife don't have any automobile registered in their names.

Another noteworthy candidate is Ahmad Ashfaque Karim, 56, who established Katihar Medical College in Katihar, around 300km northeast of Patna. He has been fielded by Lalu Prasad's RJD.

Previously associated with the LJP, Karim was in the news in 2013 when Patna SSP Manu Maharaaj had led a raid at his house in Patna to recover Rs 2 crore in cash, cheques worth Rs 25 lakh, passbooks having Rs 1 crore in deposits, an unlicensed firearm and a diary containing details about money collected from MBBS candidates. He was jailed, but the affidavit with his nomination papers says Patna High Court had quashed the case.

Karim has two wives, one of them a medical practioner, and a daughter. He has movable and immovable property worth Rs 29 crore while his family members have total assets worth Rs 18.5 crore. He has 15 bank accounts spread across Bangalore, New Delhi, Madhepura, Katihar, Patna and Hajipur and is also associated with construction and dairy business. He has land and houses in Haryana, Delhi, Mumbai, Patna, Katihar and Muzaffarpur in various cities and owns three high-end vehicles.#

Congress candidate Akhilesh Prasad Singh, 56, lists his and his wife Veena Singh's profession as "social service". They have enumerated sources of income as rentals, bank interest, agriculture, service and business. Widely tipped off till recently as the future Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) president, Akhilesh owns movable and immovable property worth Rs 19 crore. His spouse's assets are pegged at Rs 15 crore. An interesting aspect of the property details of the Arwal native's wife is that she owns 2 hectares of agricultural land on South Andaman island near Port Blair. The plot, bought for Rs 20.44 lakh in 2007 is now worth Rs 4.5 crore.

Akhilesh and his wife have non-agriculture land in Patna, Arwal, Haryana and New Delhi too.#Union minister for law and justice, electronics and information technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad, 63, is a Patna boy and also a senior advocate in the Supreme Court. He has movable assets worth Rs 17.72 crore and immovable assets worth Rs 3.74 crore. His total worth is over Rs 21 crore. His wife is a professor of history at Patna University. He has 20gm of gold and his wife 550gm. He also has three high-end automobiles, including two SUVs.

RJD national spokesperson Manoj Jha, who is all set to be elected to the Council of States, with, his wife Namrata Jha and two daughters, have assets worth Rs 98 lakh. He is a professor with the department of social work in Delhi University.The family has around 270 grams of gold and 1.2 kg of silver, two automobiles and a residential flat at Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh.#The poorest candidate is JDU state president Bashishtha Narayan Singh. The 68-year-old is a native of Kopwan village in Buxar district. His wife is a homemaker; they have a daughter. The family's total movable and immovable assets are pegged at Rs 43 lakh, including 236 grams of gold and 2.5 kg silver. Bashishtha's main source of income are the salary he gets as a Rajya Sabha member and interest on bank deposits.