Leaders have lakhs of rupees, no cars

The affidavits submitted along with poll application forms showed that many leaders did not own any cars.

Published on: Nov 14, 2003, 21:22:00 IST

PTI | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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The affidavits submitted along with poll application forms showed that many leaders did not own any cars.

Among them are Leader of Opposition Jagdish Mukhi, former Delhi BJP chief Mange Ram Garg, Mehrauli MLA Brahm Singh Tanwar and party candidate from Gole Market Poonam Azad.

According to Azad, her husband Kirti Azad owns a Mahindra jeep whose value was around Rs 11,472. Mukhi said he didn’t need his own car as he has been using his official car for 10 years.

All of them, however, have movable and immovable property worth several lakh of rupees. The total value of Garg's property including cash is over Rs 70 lakh. Tanwar's property is worth 30 lakh though he has an outstanding loan of Rs 28 lakh. Mukhi and his wife owns a flat each in Janakpuri and Gurgaon, which are together valued at around Rs 22 lakh.

Delhi BJP chief Madan Lal Khurana is an exception. He owns a 1998 model Cielo.

According to returning officer of Moti Nagar constituency Bhagmal Jain, Most of Khurana's assets are in the name of his wife, Raj Khurana.

These include movable assets of Rs 3.66 lakh and a house in Kirti Nagar worth Rs 45 lakh. Khurana has 120 gm jewellery, bank deposits of Rs 11.88 lakh and other assets worth Rs 87,000. He also has four cases pending against him, the returning officer said.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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