New Delhi: Keeping the promise to make his assets public, Independent presidential candidate Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on Friday made a declaration of his assets and liabilities, which showed he holds a bank balance of Rs 25.60 lakh and Rs 1 lakh in cash.
Shekhawat gave the details of all his assets — in cash and kind — which show his wife to be richer than him. Shekhawat's wife Suraj Kanwar has Rs 25.86 lakh in fixed deposits, Rs 1.25 lakh in cash apart from Rs 5,849 held in a savings bank account.
With just days to go before the D-day, Shekhawat tried to take a high moral ground against UPA-Left nominee Pratibha Patil, who has been accused of involvement in a number of scams.
According to his declaration, Shekhawat owns jewellery worth Rs 1 lakh while the worth of his wife's gold ornaments is estimated to be Rs 5.25 lakh and the worth of her silver utensils declared as Rs 3.90 lakh.
Kanwar owns an Ambassador car of 1980 make while her husband has an Army-disposed vehicle registered in his name. Shekhawat owns less than one hectare, that too ancestral, in a Sikar district village of Rajasthan, but his wife has 6.28 hectares in a Jaipur district village.
The declaration, which the Vice President made on his own after the Election Commission rejected senior BJP leader LK Advani's plea that presidential candidates should be asked to disclose their assets, showed that Shekhawat has got a 1/16th share in an ancestral house in Khachariawas village in Rajasthan.
His wife, however, owns a 1,000-sq yard plot in Jaipur, whose present value is estimated at Rs 1.54 crore. There is another 650-sq yard plot, worth Rs 55 lakh, in Jaipur, which has been put in a disputed claim category in her name.
Cases are pending in Rajasthan courts over 22.8 bighas listed in Kanwar's disputed claims column in the declaration. Both husband and wife owe no dues to banks or to any government department.
(With PTI inputs)
Comments
0 comment