bhubaneswar odisha health minister naba kisore das 61 who was shot dead by an onduty assistant subinspector of police from close range at brajarajnagar township in his home district jharsuguda is among states richest mlas with declared assets of around rs 34 crorenaba was in the news last week for donating a costly gold pitcher to a temple in maharashtra while various reports said he donated the 17 kg gold urn besides silver worth of rs 1 crore das had told toi on monday that his entire donations to the shani temple at shinganapur under ahmednagar district in maharashtra would be around rs 10 lakhit was the auspicious occasion of triveni amavasya on saturday from common man to big leaders thousands gather there to pray the lord i also visited the holy shrine with my family i am a firm believer he had told toiaccording to an analysis of poll affidavits of mlas by association of democratic reforms adr in 2019 nabas declared assets at rs 3362 crore is second highest after chief minister naveen patnaiks rs 6387 croreas per nabas property statement submitted to the government last year the businessmanturned politician owns a fleet of 70 vehicles mostly goods carriers besides some luxury cars total worth rs 15 crore he has a mercedes benz whose present value is estimated at over rs 114 crorehailing from the industrial town of jharsuguda naba is from a business family with his interest mainly in mining transport sector across jharsuguda sundargarh and sambalpur districts his father narasingh chandra das 92 was earlier into public transport business while his mother bishnupriya 87 is a homemaker naba diversified into transporting goodsa threetime jharsuguda mla naba was elected on a congress ticket in 2009 and 2014 in the runup to the 2019 elections he joined bjd and was reelected from jharsuguda for a third time his resignation from the congress in 2019 had invited huge media attention because he held the post of working president of odisha pradesh congress committee apart from being an mlawhen naveen patnaik undertook a massive reshuffle of his council of ministers last year naba was among nine who were retained while 11 others were dropped his clout in western odisha besides his good work as health minister during covid were reasons he was retained government insiders said