The candidates in the fray from the BJP, BJD and Congress for the tribals-dominated Sundargarh lok Sabha seat are crorepatis as per the information furnished by them in their affidavits submitted during filing of their nomination.
Sitting Rajya Sabha MP and hockey icon Dilip Tirkey of the BJD, former State BJP president and former Minister Jual Oram and former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Hemanand Biswal are locking horns for the seat in the coming elections.
Out of these three candidates, Tirkey stands on the top of the list among the candidates in respect of property. In his affidavit submitted during filing of nomination, Tirkey has shown his total property to be worth about Rs67 crore. According to the affidavit, Tirkey has a total movable properties worth Rs79.34 lakh and immovable properties worth Rs5.66 crore. Besides, his spouse has immovable property worth Rs44.39 lakh. In the segment of immovable properties, he has plots and flats at different places of the country like Rourkela, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar and Puri .
In his native Saunamara village,Tirkey has a plot worth about Rs2 lakh and a land at Gurubasa of Sundargarh worth about Rs8.5 lakh.Besides, he has a bank loan of about Rs8.31 lakh in his name. He has cash worth Rs1.93 lakh in bank and further Rs1 lakh in his spouse’s bank account. Again as per the affidavit, he possesses gold ornaments of 300 gm worth about Rs9 lakh and his spouse possesses about 1 kg of gold ornament worth about Rs30 lakh. Besides, he has three luxurious cars in his possession.
Three- time MP and former Minister Oram in his affidavit has mentioned his property to be worth Rs2.54 crore. According to his affidavit, he has immovable property worth about Rs90 lakh and movable property worth Rs74.36 lakh.
Similarly, his spouse has movable property worth Rs43.56 lakh and immovable property worth Rs50 lakh. As per the affidavit, he has deposits worth Rs19.92 lakh and Rs15.42 lakh in two separate accounts in SBI Parliament branch, Rs14.56 lakh in SBI Chandrasekharpur branch and Rs8.77 lakh in lahunipara branch.
Similarly, in his spouse’s name, there are deposits worth Rs22.06 lakh in SBI Chandrasekharpur branch, Rs12.33 lakh in lahunipara branch, Rs71,000 and Rs51,000 in another two accounts. He has about 250 grams of gold ornaments worth about Rs7.5 lakh. Besides, he possesses about 14.515 acres of agricultural land in his native village, which is worth about Rs21 lakh. He has a house of about 2,500 square feet at Chandrasekharpur of Bhubaneswar and a house of about 2,400 square feet at Civil Township of Rourkela in his spouse’s name.
Both the houses, according to his affidavit, are estimated to be worth about Rs50 lakh.Sitting Congress MP and former Chief Minister Biswal, according to his affidavit filed during nomination, has property worth about Rs2 crore. Biswal has immovable property worth Rs1.4 crore and movable property worth Rs32.98 lakh, where as there has been immovable property worth Rs15 lakh and movable property worth Rs13.09 lakh in his spouse’s name.
Biswal mentioned that he has cash worth Rs1 lakh with him and Rs50,000 with his spouse. He possess about 100 grams of gold ornament worth about Rs3 lakh and his spouse possesses about 200 grams gold ornaments worth about Rs6 lakh.
He has shown in his affidavit that he owns a house at Nayapalli area of Bhubaneswar worth Rs50 lakh. Similarly, he also owns a house in Thakurpada, which is also estimated to be worth Rs50 lakh. Biswal showed in his affidavit that he has taken loan of Rs13 lakh from different banks.