Several elected lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh including senior party leaders of the Bharatiya Janta Party(BJP), Samajwadi Party and the Congress have multiplied their assets several times in just five years.
leaders like Varun Gandhi and his mother Menaka Gandhi of the BJP, Mulayam Singh Yadav and his daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav of the Samajwadi Party and Congress president Sonia Gandhi were among the prominent whose assets rose by several times.
According to data released by Association for Democratic Reforms(ADR) here on Thursday, Varun Gandhi, who shifted this time to Sultanpur lok Sabha seat from Pilibhit, assets rose from Rs 4.92 crores in 2009 to Rs 35.73 crore which is around 625 per cent growth while his mother Menaka Gandhi’s asset rose
by 105 per cent in the past five years from Rs 1.28 crores in 2009 to Rs 37.41 crore in 2014.
SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav’s assets increased by 613 per cent in just five years while his daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav rose by 210 per cent in the same period. Yadav’s asset which was Rs 2.23 crores in 2009 has now touched Rs 15.96 crores in 2014 while Dimple’s asset which was Rs 9.03 crores in 2009 was now Rs 28.05 crores in 2014.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s asset also rose by 573 per cent in the past five years. In 2009 her asset was just Rs 1.37 crores but it has now reached Rs 9.28 crores in 2014. BJP president Rajnath Singh’s asset also grew by 96 per
cent in past five years. His assets was Rs 1.49 crores in 2009 and now it is Rs 2.92 crores. But the highest increase in assets has been attributed to BJP’s lok Sabha member from Agra, Ramashanker Kateharia whose asset rose by a record 869 per cent. Kateharia’s assets in 2009 was just Rs 15.11 lakhs but in 2014 it touched to Rs 1.46 crores.
Surprisingly, when almost assets of all the candidates who contested the elections rose by several fold, a MP who has been elected for the second time has claimed that his assets has decreased by 64 per cent. BJP MP from Doomariaganj Jagdambika Pal, who switched over the BJP from Congress on the eve of the elections, had shown his asset worth Rs 4.97 crores in 2009 but after five years his assets have now gone down to Rs 1.78 crores in 2014.