AAP's Yogendra Yadav declares assets of Rs 3 crore

Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and Gurgaon candidate Yogendra Yadav on Thursday declared his assets to the tune of about Rs 3 crore, which includes farm land, commercial booth and sizable amount of bank deposits and Provident Funds.

Filing his nomination papers as APP nominee from Gurgaon, Yadav, 50, who hails from Saharanwas village in Rewari district, declared he has movable and immovable assets worth about Rs 3 crore in his and his wife Madhulika's names.

While Yadav has movable and immovable assets worth Rs 81.43 lakh and Rs 1.32 crore respectively, his wife has movable assets of Rs 43.43 lakh and immovable assets of Rs 40 lakh.

The AAP leader has a meagre amount of Rs 2,000 as cash-in-hand, and his wife has cash worth Rs 68,800 including euros 800.

Yadav owns a 2010-make Maruti Ritz car, whose value stands at Rs 5.43 lakh.

The couple also have sizable bank deposits and other investments in bonds.

These include Rs 26 lakh in a PF account, over Rs 6.85 lakh in Yadav's name at a UCO bank branch in Delhi, Rs 2 lakh in HDFC bank branch in Gurgaon, tax free bonds including one valued at Rs 6.56 lakh, one PPF account having Rs 7.5 lakh savings, Rs 9 lakh in post office saving scheme while wife has Rs 5 lakh worth tax free bonds, UTI-ULIP valued at Rs 3.70lakh and GPF at Rs 6.2 lakh.

Among immovable assets, Yadav has two acres of farm land at Rewari worth Rs 90 lakh along with a commercial booth at Rewari valued at Rs 41 lakh, while his wife has a 50 per cent share in a 1100 square feet flat in Delhi's I P Extension, with a value of Rs 40 lakh.

Prominent against whom Yadav is pitted from Gurgaon is BJP's Rao Inderjit Singh, who quit the Congress to join the saffron party, and Congress's Rao Dharampal.

Union Minister Kapil Sibal's assets has almost tripled over the last three years, increasing from Rs 38 crore in 2011 to Rs 114 crore at present.

In his nomination paper filed today from Chandni Chowk constituency, Sibal along with his wife Promila has declared assets worth around Rs 114 crore, which includes their movable and immovable properties.

According to his affidavit filed in 2011, Sibal had declared movable and immovable assets worth around Rs 38 crore.

Sibal has shown Rs 77 lakh as income in his last year's income tax return even as his wife Promila Sibal has declared Rs 28.73 lakh income for the last financial year.

According to Sibal's affidavit, his and his wife's movable assets are worth 13.38 crore which include around over 15 crore in cash in bank deposits and 4.6 kg of gold and precious stones worth over 1 crore. Rest is invested in mutual funds, bonds and insurance policies among others.

As far as his immovable assets sre concerned, Sibal owns or has shares in 17 properties including residential, commercial, agricultural and non-agricultural land worth over Rs 68 crore. Moreover, he has invested Rs 4.2 crore in advance for purchase of properties.

Promila owns a house in New Friends colony in New Delhi whose market value is Rs 28 crore. Besides that she has also invested 17 lakh in advance for purchase of residential plot.

Image: Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and Gurgaon candidate Yogendra Yadav