Karnataka: Disqualified MLA, MTB Nagaraj buys Rolls Royce Phantom worth ₹11 crore

MTB Nagaraj is one of the seventeen rebel MLAs who were disqualified by Speaker Ramesh Kumar of Karnataka Assembly for anti-party activities.

The disqualified MLA from Karnataka has drawn attention by purchasing one of the costliest cars available. It’s the phantom launched by Rolls Royce, at a whopping price of ₹11 crore, according to a report by News18 Kannada.

Nagaraj took a ride in it to the Avimukteshwara temple in his hometown, Hoskote and later went to meet CM BS Yediyurappa in his newly bought Rolls Royce.

He met the chief minister to hand over a cheque of ₹1 crore for flood-relief activities to be taken up in North Karnataka.

According to a report in News18, he said, “I had a long-pending desire to purchase this car. Thankfully, it has been realised now.”

But this hasn’t gone down well with the opposition parties. Congress leader Nivedith Alva took to Twitter to slam him.

In 2013, MTB Nagaraj had declared his worth to be ₹470 crore and in 2018, he had declared his assets to be worth ₹709 crore and a sum of ₹306 crore in the name of his wife.