Sixty legislators of Uttarakhand Assembly including Chief Minister Harish Rawat and State BJP chief Ajay Bhatt have not submitted the declaration of their assets and liabilities to the Election Commission.
In a letter directed to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Nasim Zaidi, Aam Aadami Party (AAP) leader, Anoop Nautiyal has demanded that it should act on the issue and suspend the membership of these leaders. In his letter the AAP leader has claimed that elected legislators are bound to declare their assets within three months of their elections and apart from it they are liable to submit this report annually by June 30, in which details of their annual income is provided. Nautiyal said that 44 MlAs have not declared their assets even once in last four years.