Supporters play conventional musical devices as BJP candidate for Govindarajanagar constituency Umesh Shetty arrives to file his nomination in Bengaluru on Tuesday.
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Ministers R. Ashok and Araga Jnanendra, Speaker VIshweshwar Hegde Kageri, MLAs Suresh Kumar, B. Sriramulu, Byrathi Suresh, B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, Anjali Nimbalkar, and Laxman Savadi, who just lately shifted loyalties from the the BJP to the Congress, have been among the many 770 candidates who filed their nominations for the May 10 Assembly polls on Tuesday.
Among the richest
Former Congress legislator from Govindarajanagar Priyakrishna is among the many richest candidates within the fray, with complete declared belongings at ₹1,156 crore with his belongings rising by ₹136.8 crore within the final 5 years at the same time as his liabilities have additionally shot up.
The belongings of BJP candidate N. Nagaraju (MTB), who filed his nominations on Monday, stood at ₹1,614.5 crore.
Mr. Priyakrishna’s liabilities have shot up from ₹802 crore in 2018 to ₹881.99 crore now, which embrace ₹780.87 crore in direction of ‘Sundry Creditors,’ his affidavit reveals.
In 2018, he declared belongings worth ₹1,020 crore, a rise from ₹910 crore in 2013. He has movable belongings worth ₹935 crore and immovable belongings of ₹221.83 crore.
Mr. Priyakrishna, who was elected from Govindarajanagar within the 2009 bypoll to the Assembly, is the son of realtor-politician M. Krishnappa, popularly often known as Layout Krishnappa, who is additionally the sitting MLA from Vijayanagar.
Fancy registration numbers
He seems to have a penchant for fancy registration numbers as all his non-public automobiles bear the registration variety of ‘9279,’ registered in numerous regional transport places of work in Bengaluru.
Some of the immoveable belongings of Mr. Priyakrishna are ‘gifted,’ as he mentions within the affidavit.
Byrathi Suresh
Meanwhile, the Congress candidate for Hebbal, Suresh B.S. popularly often known as Byrathi Suresh, has belongings of ₹648.12 crore. His belongings shot up by ₹231.42 crore within the final 5 years. In 2018 his belongings have been worth ₹416.7 crore. Mr. Suresh’s liabilities have additionally shot up from ₹41 crore in 2018 to ₹114.86 crore now. He has claimed he is an agriculturalist and a landlord by career.
He has movable belongings worth ₹57.07 crore and immovable belongings of ₹561.28 crore. He has disclosed his spouse S.N. Padmavathi and daughter Swathi Suresh’s mixed movable belongings a ₹7 crore and immovable belongings of ₹22.77 crore. The couple has gold, diamond, and silver gadgets worth ₹2.98 crore.
Janardhan Reddy’s spouse is richer
Lakshmi Aruna, the spouse of mining baron and founding father of Kalyana Rajya Pragati Paksha (KRPP) Gali Janardhan Reddy, is, as per the affidavit of Mr. Reddy, filed alongside with his nomination papers for Gangavathi constituency in Koppal district, richer than her husband. The couple’s complete belongings are worth about ₹250 crore.
Ms. Aruna owns movable belongings worth ₹96.23 crore as in comparison with Mr. Reddy who has moveable belongings of ₹29.20 crore. Their son Kireeti Reddy has immovable property worth ₹7.24 crore.
In phrases of the immovable property additionally, Ms. Aruna is richer with ₹77.80 crore as in comparison with Mr. Reddy’s ₹5.41 crore and their son’s ₹ 41.19 lakh.
R. Ashok
The BJP’s distinguished chief and Revenue Minister R. Ashok’s belongings together with that of his undivided household have greater than doubled within the final 5 years, from ₹32.04 crore in 2018 to ₹75.73 crore now. This seems to be a rise of 236%. In his affidavit filed in Kanakapura Assembly constituency, he has declared the worth of his private belongings at ₹5.28 crore whereas that of his undivided household stands at ₹70.45 crore.
Similarly, his complete liabilities have elevated from ₹1.86 throughout 2018 to ₹8.92 crore now together with that of the undivided household.
The complete worth of movable and immovable belongings possessed by Mr. Ashok’s spouse M.R. Pramila Rani have elevated by ₹3 crore to ₹11.61 crore in contrast with the worth declared in 2018 affidavit.
