New Delhi: Congress MP from Wayanad Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday declared his assets in his nomination for the upcoming general elections. As per his affidavit filed from Wayanad, Rahul Gandhi has total assets worth over Rs 20 crore.
Of these, Gandhi has movable assets worth Rs 9.24 crore and immovable property is valued at around Rs 11.14 crore. Gandhi also declared liabilities worth Rs 49.79 lakh in his election affidavit.
Mr Gandhi has declared about Rs 9.24 crore in movable assets. This includes Rs 55,000 cash, Rs 26.25 lakh in bank deposits, Rs 4.33 crore in bonds and shares, Rs 3.81 crore in mutual funds, Rs 15.21 lakh in gold bonds and jewellery worth Rs 4.20 lakh.
The Congress leader owns immoveable assets worth Rs 11.15 crore. These include agricultural land in Delhi’s Mehrauli that he co-owns with sister and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Mr Gandhi also owns office space in Gurugram, currently valued at over Rs 9 crore. While the agricultural land has been mentioned as inherited property, the office space is not.
Moving on, Rahul Gandhi has stock market investments worth Rs 4.33 crore as of March 15, 2024. The Gandhi scion has purchased shares in Alkyl Amines Chemicals, Asian Paints, Bajaj Finance, Deepak Nitrite, Divi’s Laboratories, Dr Lal Pathlabs, Fine Organic Industries, Garware Technical Fibres, GMM Pfaudler, Hindustan Unilever, ICICI Bank, Info Edge (India), Infosys, ITC, LTI Mindtree, Mold-Tek Packaging, Nestle India, Pidilite Industries, Suprajit Industries, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Titan Company, Tube Investments of India, Vertoz Advertising. Vinyl Chemicals (India), and Britannia Industries 5.5 NCD 03JU24.
Besides this, he also has 1,900 equity shares of Young Indian, parent company of the Congress-backed National Herald newspaper, worth Rs 1.90 lakh. Gandhi invested Rs 3.81 crore in mutual funds. Mutual funds brought by Rahul Gandhi include HDFC MCOP DP GR, HDFC Small Cap DP GR, ICICI EQ&DF D Growth, PPFAS FCF D Growth, HDFC Small Cap Reg-G, HDFC Hybrid Debt Fund-G and ICICI Prudential Reg Savings-G.
The Congress scion also purchased 220 units of sovereign gold bonds (SGBs) worth Rs 15.21 lakh. He also declared investments worth Rs 61.52 lakh in schemes like National Savings Scheme (NSS), Postal Savings Scheme, Insurance Policies and investment in any financial instruments in post office or insurance company and the amount.
He also owns 333.300 grams gold and other jewellery worth Rs 4.20 lakh. Gandhi also declared the ownership of agricultural land along with sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, both of which are valued at Rs 2.10 crore.
Mr Gandhi has also detailed in the affidavit the police cases he faces. These include a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) for allegedly disclosing the identity of family members of a rape victim in a social media post.
He has said that as per directions of Delhi High Court, the FIR is in a sealed cover. “I am, therefore, not aware of the details of the FIR. I am also not aware of whether I am arraigned as an accused in the FIR. I am, however, disclosing its existence out of abundant caution,” he stated.
The other cases against Mr Gandhi include those filed on complaints of defamation by BJP leaders. He has also mentioned in his affidavit the criminal conspiracy case linked to Associated Journals Limited.
Mr Gandhi won the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in the 2019 general election. This time, he is up against CPI leader Annie Raja and state BJP chief K Surendran in the high-profile contest scheduled for April 26.
