Bengaluru, Apr 20: With assets of Rs 840 crore declared in the affidavit submitted to the election officer on Thursday, Karnataka Energy Minister D K Shivakumar among the wealthiest in the fray this election.
The Congress heavyweight had declared assets of Rs 251 crore during the 2013 elections. The appreciation in the value of non-agriculture land owned by him in Bengaluru and Mysuru has shot up the value of his assets.
The minister himself owns properties worth Rs 619.8 crore. Shivakumar has also included assets inherited by him this time around.
He has given out loans to the tune of 62.47 crores to individuals and organisations including Rs 22 crore to his mother and Rs 11.32 crore to his daughter.
Apartments owned by him and his partnership in housing project have also been included this time.
Shivakumar has added 1.066 kg of gold and 321 gram of diamond (worth Rs 1.26 crore) to the 6.9 kg of gold owned by his family in 2013.
The Shivakumar family has taken loans of Rs 228 crore from various sources.
His daughter Aishwarya has purchased a mall spread over 2.23 lakh square feet at Bellandur in Bengaluru. She has to repay a bank loan of Rs 39.82 crore taken for it.
Anand Singh
The family of Anand Singh, the Congress candidate from Vijayanagar constituency, has assets worth Rs 125 crore in total. Congress leader L Siddanagouda submitted Singh’s nomination papers, as a proposer, to the election officer in Hosapete on Thursday. Singh has to appear and take an oath before the election officer before April 24. His nomination papers will be rejected if he does not do so.
Singh has movable assets worth Rs 25.91 crore and immovable assets worth Rs 45 crore in his name.
His wife Lakshmi has immovable and movable assets worth Rs 12 crore and Rs 28 crore, respectively. The other assets are in the names of his children Vaishnavi, Siddarth and Yashasvi.
He has commercial complexes worth Rs 26.16 crore in Bengaluru, while his wife’s residential complexes are worth Rs 27.29 crore in the state capital. She has borrowed a loan of Rs 9.58 crore from different banks. Singh has 18 cars, including Range Rover, Benz, Volvo and BMW.
Yeddyurappa
BJP’s chief ministerial candidate B S eddyurappa’s total income has dipped drastically as per the affidavit submitted by him to the returning officer of Shikaripura Assembly constituency on Thursday.
Yeddyurappa, the party’s candidate from Shikaripura, has declared an annual income of Rs 12,33,313, which is about Rs 3 lakh less than the income he had declared during 2014 Lok Sabha polls. Then, he had declared an annual income of Rs 15,26,828. His affidavit also mentions that his total bank savings are Rs 16,60,174 and fixed deposits Rs 18,08,321.
The former chief minister has declared his total assets at Rs 7 crore of which movable assets are worth Rs 71,300,40. He also owns agricultural land worth Rs 53,74,875, and commercial buildings are worth Rs 68,788,30. He also owns jewellery worth Rs 1.09 crore. His liabilities amount to Rs 2.53 lakh.
In the nominations, he had filed for Lok Sabha elections in 2014, he had declared total assets of Rs 6,97,46,267. In the affidavit furnished along with the nomination he had filed for the Assembly elections in 2013, Yeddyurappa had declared assets worth Rs 5,96,86,750.
There are three criminal cases against the BJP state president and charges include criminal misconduct, criminal breach of trust, cheating, forgery, transfer of land which is a subject matter of acquisition proceedings, criminal conspiracy and undue influence of elections.
Eshwarappa
Former deputy chief minister and the BJP nominee from Shivamoga City constituency K S Eshwarappa has declared assets worth Rs 10.61 crore in the affidavit submitted to the returning officer here on Thursday.
He had declared total assets worth Rs 7.28 crore in the 2013 Assembly polls. His assets have gone up by around Rs 3 crore in a span of five years. As per the affidavit, he has movable assets worth Rs 2.46 crore while his wife Jayalakshmi owns assets worth Rs 3.35 crore. Eshwarappa has immovable assets worth Rs 3.65 crore and his wife has 85 lakh. His annual income is Rs 21,99,600 and that of his wife is Rs 43,14,860.
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