Haryana Chief Minister’s son, Deepender Singh Hooda seeking re-election from Rohtak parliamentary constituency, has declared his assets value, including that of his wife, at over Rs35 crore.
The 36-year-old Deepender, a two time MP, filed his nomination papers along with affidavit here on Saturday. He has declared his movable assets worth nearly Rs4.44 crore while immovable assets are pegged at nearly Rs11.77 crore. Deepender has declared movable and immovable assets of his wife Shweta Mirdha, who comes from a political family of Rajasthan, at approximately Rs2.62 crore and Rs17 crore, respectively.
Among movable assets, Deepender has declared his cash-in-hand amount to Rs9 lakh. He also has multiple savings accounts, including Rs83 lakh in Citibank, Connaught Circus branch at Delhi, Rs23.9 lakh at ICICI branch at Delhi, Rs24.44 lakh at SBI branch at Bazpur in Uttarakhand, investments in multiple mutual funds, including l&T equity, HDFC premier equity, Reliance Banking Fund and UTI Opportunity Fund.Deepender has declared investment in a partnership firm at Rs1.28 crore.
As far as his immovable assets are concerned, Deepender has chunks of agriculture land, including the one at Bazpur in Uttarakhand, a residential flat Neb Sarai, Delhi while his wife has a share in a piece of agriculture land at Jaipur and Jodhpur, besides also possessing two residential flats at Ferozeshah Road in Delhi. While Deepender possesses some of his property from inheritance, his wife has declared value of her inherited property at around Rs9 crore. Deepender has also declared his income for 2012-13 at Rs79.75 lakh and that of his wife at Rs1.47 lakh. Deepender filed his nomination papers before Chief Returning Officer at mini Secretariat. He was accompanied by his father Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, mother Asha Hooda, wife Sweta Hooda, amongst others.
Talking to reporters after filing his nomination, he said development would be the main issue in his election campaign and expressed the hope that keeping in view the efforts made by him for development of the state members belonging to all communities would extend their whole-hearted cooperation in this election. Deepender regretted that he is not keeping good health and will not be campaigning for his own election. His election campaign would be conducted by his supporters and well-wishers.
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Hooda claimed that there was a wave in favour of Congress and members belonging to all communities were in favour of the party. Criticising the BJP and INlD, he said the manner in which the members of the BJP have accused their leadership of taking money in allotment of the ticket, has exposed the party. Hooda said that after the lok Sabha election, INlD would be wiped out.