The Aam Aadami Party (AAP) leader Anoop Nautiyal has requested the speaker of Uttarakhand assembly, Govind Singh Kunjwal to take strict action against legislators who have failed to declare their assets.
In a letter directed to the speaker, the AAP leader has claimed that sixty legislators of Uttarakhand assembly have not submitted the declaration of their asset and liabilities to the election commission as required under the law.
Nautiyal said that the 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.
He said that the budget session which is starting from Tuesday is the last budget session before the assembly elections of 2017. The AAP leader said that corruption is at its zenith in the state but the state government is yet to appoint lokayukt in last 27 months.