Shobha, Rajeev Gowda, 85 other candidates submit nominations in State
Candidates declare movable and immovable assets held by them and their families
Several candidates, including Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje, former Rajya Sabha member M.V. Rajeev Gowda, and former Minister Kota Shrinivas Poojary, filed their nominations on Wednesday, for the April 26 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka. Overall, 87 candidates filed 116 sets of nominations on Wednesday.
Rajeev Gowda
M.V. Rajeev Gowda, the Congress candidate for Bengaluru North, has declared total assets worth ₹134.02 crore. This includes assets held by him and his family. While he has declared total assets worth ₹34.59 crore held by him, his wife Sharmila Bhaktaram is way richer than him with assets worth ₹99.42 crore (including ₹6.85 crore movable assets), as per the affidavit. Besides, he has declared movable assets of ₹2,20,813 in the name of his daughter Rishika Vijaylakshmi Gowda. His wife owns diamond and gold jewellery worth ₹37.67 crores. In 2014, when he was elected to the Rajya Sabha, Mr. Gowda had declared assets of ₹49 crore.
Mansoor Ali Khan
Mansoor Ali Khan, the Congress candidate for Bengaluru Central, has declared total assets worth ₹97.32 crore. This includes assets held by him, his wife Tasbia Khan and two sons.
While he has declared total movable assets worth ₹25.88 crore, his family’s immovable assets are worth ₹71.44 crore. The total assets held by him are worth ₹77.15 while his wife’s total assets are worth ₹19.74 crore, as per the affidavit. Besides, he has declared movable assets of ₹43.31 lakh in the name of his sons.
Apart from shares in Amanath Cooperative Bank and Al Ameen Housing Development Corporation, Mr. Khan owns an Audi S5 Sportback car worth over ₹98 lakh, investments in the realty sector and agricultural land besides bank deposits and gold 2.25 kgs of gold worth over ₹1.38 crore apart from membership in topnotch clubs. Apart from several residential flats in and around Bengaluru, he also owns a flat in Dubai.
Poojary’s assets
Mr. Poojary, who has been a Member of the Legislative Council since 2009, a Minister thrice, and presently the Leader of the Opposition in the Council, is worth ₹2.94 crore. He and his family (wife, two daughters, and a son) own moveable assets worth ₹64.2 lakh and immovable assets worth ₹2.3 crore. The immoveable assets include a 4,770 sqft. house built upon 13 cents of land in Giliyar village near Kota.
Jayaprakash Hegde
A threetime MLA, a Minister, and a Lok Sabha member once, K. Jayaprakash Hegde, who headed the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes has declared total assets worth ₹15.34 crore, including ₹1.16 crore worth of movable assets jointly with his wife. He has residential houses in his native village Korgi in Kundapura taluk as well as in Bengaluru. About half of Mr. Hegde’s moveable assets are inherited by his father, the affidavit said.
Shobha Karandlaje
Outgoing Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje, who filed her nomination on Wednesday as BJP candidate from Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency, has declared assets valued at about ₹13.88 crore. The Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare owns no agricultural land and has only a twowheeler (Honda Activa), according to her affidavit.
Ms. Karandlaje has declared movable assets worth about ₹9.23 crore, and immovable assets (selfacquired) that have a current market value of about ₹4.65 crore. The 57yearold owns 1,000 grams of gold biscuit whose current market value is ₹68.40 lakh, and has gold ornaments and silver worth ₹40 lakh. She has five pending criminal cases against her.
In 2019, when she contested and won from UdupiChikkamagaluru parliamentary constituency, she had declared assets worth ₹10.48 crore.
Sunil Bose
Sunil Bose, the Congress candidate for Chamarajanagar, has declared movable assets worth ₹3.53 crore while the worth of immovable assets in his name is ₹4.31 crore. His liabilities amount to ₹5.56 crore.
Mr. Bose, son of Minister for Social Welfare H.C. Mahadevappa has declared that he has a pending criminal case registered against him in Nanjangud Rural police station for the distribution of buttermilk and fruits to public and party workers while canvassing for votes on March 28, 2017.
M. Lakshmana
M. Lakshmana, Congress candidate for Mysuru constituency, has declared movable assets worth ₹46.65 lakh including a fourwheeler while his wife’s movable assets are worth ₹39.50 lakh. Movable assets in the name of Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) and his two dependents are worth ₹2.56 lakh, ₹45.90 lakh, and ₹18.96 lakh respectively. The market value of Mr. Lakshmana’s immovable assets amount to ₹1.5 crore.
A.C. Srinivas, Pulakeshinagar MLA, and his supporters have been booked for allegedly assaulting Static Surveillance Team members during an inspection to check an unauthorised gathering at his office situated on M.M. Road on Tuesday.
Based on the complaint filed by SST team leader Manjula Saravana, the police charged Srinivas and his supporters under Section 353 (assault or use of criminal force obstructing a public servant from discharging duty) for further investigations. In a complaint, Ms. Manjula said that she along with her team went to the MLA’s office for inspection based on a complaint that a meeting had been organised without permission from the election commission.
At the office, hundreds of people gathered to discuss the water problem in their area and they were submitting grievances. The videographer of the SST tried to record the event when people surrounded him and created a ruckus demanding his identity card. While the videographer was trying to reason with them, the violent group manhandled the team, snatched the video and deleted the recording, she alleged.
This amounts to assault and using criminal force as well as a violation of the model code of conduct, she said. The police said they will summon the accused for questioning.