New Delhi: No autos, three properties co-owned with sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and investments in 25 listed firms are among the many Rs 20.40 crore of belongings that Congress’s Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi has shared in his election affidavit filed Wednesday.
His belongings have doubled prior to now 10 years, the affidavit, filed from his present Wayanad parliamentary seat, reveals. In 2014, Rahul had declared belongings value Rs 9.40 crore, which rose to Rs 15.88 crore in 2019.
Of the Rs 4.33 crore of inventory he owns, Rs 1.5 crore are in 4 firms — Pidilite Industries Ltd, Bajaj Finance, Nestle India, and Asian Paints. Of those, the very best is in Pidilite, a Mumbai-based adhesive firm.
The affidavit additionally reveals that prison circumstances towards the Congress MP have tripled over the previous 5 years. Considerably, most of those circumstances pertain to prison defamation — together with one during which he was convicted in March final 12 months.
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Shares in firms, properties
The Wayanad MP owns shares in Hindustan Unilever (Rs 27 lakh), ICICI Financial institution (Rs 24 lakh), Infosys (Rs 14 lakh), ITC (Rs 13 lakh), Tata Consultancy Companies (Rs 9.8 lakh) and Titan (Rs 32 lakh). Other than these, he additionally owns Rs 19.76 lakh in shares in Divi’s Laboratories Restricted — an organization that the Election Fee of India’s information confirmed donated Rs 30 crore in electoral bonds to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) and Rs 5 crore to the Congress.
The affidavit additionally reveals that Rahul has Rs 3.8 crore in mutual funds and Rs 15.2 lakh in sovereign gold bonds.
In mounted belongings, he owns a industrial property in Gurugram and co-owns three agricultural properties — together with a farmhouse — together with his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. His share within the three agricultural properties quantities to Rs 2.1 crore, the affidavit reveals.
Felony circumstances tripled from 2019
Felony circumstances towards the Wayanad MP have tripled from six within the final basic election in 2019 to 18 in 2024. This contains the defamation case that led to his disqualification from Lok Sabha final 12 months.
Till 2014, Rahul didn’t face a single prison case.
Fifteen of those 18 circumstances pertain to prison defamation. Of those, 10 are for feedback made towards the BJP, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and leaders of those outfits, together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Three circumstances pertain to the chief’s feedback on the “Modi clan”, “Modi Samaj” and “all persons with Modi surname”, the affidavit reveals. One is in connection together with his feedback on the Hindutva icon V.D. Savarkar and one other to his allegations of a rip-off on the Ahmedabad District Co-operative Financial institution.
FIRs have been registered in two of the 18 circumstances towards him — a copyright case for a tune he and the Congress used throughout final 12 months’s Bharat Jodo Yatra and one other prison case for allegedly disclosing the id of the dad and mom of a minor rape survivor on social media in August 2021.
The final case pertains to a minor Dalit woman’s alleged rape and homicide in Delhi’s Outdated Nangal in August 2021.
In his affidavit, Rahul concedes that he didn’t know the main points of the second FIR because it was submitted to the Delhi Excessive Court docket in a sealed cowl.
“I am also not aware of whether I am arraigned as an accused in this FIR. I am, however, disclosing its existence out of abundant caution,” Rahul says within the affidavit.
The final case towards him pertains to the alleged prison misappropriation of funds at Congress mouthpiece, The Nationwide Herald.
This case, filed on the again of a personal criticism by former Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy, alleges a “conspiracy to criminally misappropriate and cheat the shareholders of M/s The Associated Journals Ltd. by M/s Young Indian and its Directors” in 2010.
The Related Journals are the publishers of the Nationwide Herald. Final 12 months, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), one of many businesses investigating the case, connected properties of Related Journals Restricted and Younger Indian, one other Congress-linked entity.
Rahul, together with Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, are administrators of Younger Indian. In his affidavit, the Wayanad MP has declared 1,900 shares value Rs 1.9 lakh within the firm.
(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)
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