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ID Swami
MoS for Home is hard put to return from Karnal. Check out his declared assets.
ID Swami
Party:
BJP
The 75-year old BJP candidate from Karnal parliamentary constituency, ID Swami, is fighting for political survival in this politically-sensitive constituency. He won the Lok Sabha elections from here in 1996 and 1999 but this time it seems to be a tough contest for him.
A bureaucrat-turned-politician who got a ministerial berth in the Vajpayee government as the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Swami has very few choices, particularly after the INLD parted ways with the NDA alliance.
Swami, while filing his nomination for the Lok Sabha elections, also declared his assets which stood at Rs 12 lakh approximately.
Constituency
Karnal (Haryana)
Bank Balance, Property & Investments
Cash of Rs 27,000, deposits of Rs 3.6 lakh, bonds of Rs 45,800 and PPF account deposit worth Rs 2.18 lakh; owns 2 acre of land in village Chapra Khera valued at Rs 5.4 lakh.
The family has two vehicles, a Maruti and a Mahindra Jeep registered in the name of Swami.
His wife has Rs 36,000 in cash, Rs 6.6 lakh in deposits; jewellery worth Rs 4.95 lakh. Besides, the couple's daughter has deposits of Rs I lakh in her name.
