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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday filed his nomination as Congress candidate for the Lok Sabha elections from Rae Bareli. While filing nomination, he has declared assets worth more than Rs 20 crore in his affidavit. This also includes gold worth Rs 4.2 lakh. However, he has said that he neither has his own house nor car.
Rahul Gandhi has declared movable assets worth Rs 9,24,59,264, which includes shares worth Rs 4,33,60,519, bank balance worth Rs 26,25,157, mutual funds worth Rs 3,81,33,572 and gold worth Rs 15,21,740. Bonds are included.
The former Congress president has declared immovable assets with a current market value of Rs 11,15,02,598. These currently include self-acquired assets worth Rs 9,04,89,000 and inherited assets worth Rs 2,10,13,598.
Although Rahul Gandhi does not have any residential apartment. The Congress leader has declared that he has Rs 55,000 in cash. At the same time, he has 333.3 grams of gold and jewelery worth Rs 4,20,850 (pure gold 168.8 grams).
Rahul Gandhi does not have any car
Gandhi has claimed that he does not own any motor car or other vehicle, but he has liabilities of Rs 49,79,184. The immovable properties include approximately 3.778 acres of agricultural land in Village Sultanpur, Mehrauli, New Delhi, jointly owned with her sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and 5,838 sq ft of commercial apartments (office space) in Signature Towers in Gurugram. At the current market price, the value of both the commercial apartments is approximately Rs 9.05 crore.
He has declared that his sources of income are MP salary, royalty, rent, interest from bonds, dividends and capital gains from mutual funds. He has declared his total income for 2022-23 at Rs 1,02,78,680, while in 2021-22 it was Rs 1,31,04,970.
According to his nomination papers, Gandhi holds an MPhil degree from Trinity College, Cambridge University. He also has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rollins College, Florida. The Congress leader has announced that 18 cases have been registered against him in various states across the country.
Rahul Gandhi’s disclosure in the affidavit
Gandhi noted that he was convicted in a case under sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code for “alleged defamatory statements made against the so-called Modi society” by the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate in March 2023 and sentenced to two years in jail. Was punished. In the affidavit, Rahul Gandhi said that an appeal has been filed in the court of the Principal District Judge in Surat, Gujarat and it is pending.
According to the information given in the affidavit, Gandhi was sentenced to two years in jail and was banned by the Supreme Court on August 4, 2023. The Congress leader has not mentioned any other criminal case against him in the affidavit.
A relationship of affection and trust with Rae Bareli…. Priyanka Gandhi gets emotional on Rahul Gandhi’s nomination
Former Congress President and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday filed nomination for the Lok Sabha elections from Rae Bareli, the traditional seat of the Gandhi family. After the nomination of Rahul Gandhi, his sister and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has made a very emotional post on the social site X. He has written, a few days ago mother had said that my family is incomplete in Delhi. It gets completed after coming to Rae Bareli. This is a family which has absorbed many generations. Who has stood with us like a rock in every ups and downs, crisis, happiness, sorrow and struggle for decades. This is a relationship of affection and trust. He said that this is also a relationship of service and faith which has been unbroken for half a century.
He wrote that the amount of love, intimacy and respect we have received from the people here is priceless. The greatest beauty of a family relationship is that even if you want to, you are never able to repay the debt of its love. In this difficult time, when we are fighting to save the country’s democracy, constitution and people’s rights, our entire family stands firmly with us in this fight too. Today, in the presence of thousands of family members, elder brother Rahul filed his election nomination.
Priyanka was with Rahul while filing nomination
Let us tell you that on Friday, Rahul Gandhi filed his nomination in Rae Bareli in the presence of his mother Sonia Gandhi, sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Robert Vadra, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge. Rahul Gandhi is also contesting elections from Wayanad. Voting has been completed in Wayanad, but there was suspense regarding Rae Bareli for a long time. On Friday, Congress clarified its position regarding Rae Bareli and Amethi and Rae Bareli had announced to field Rahul Gandhi as its candidate.
Rae Bareli has been the traditional seat of Gandhi family
Let us tell you that Rae Bareli is one of the safest seats for Congress. Out of 20 elections held so far, Congress has won this seat in 17. This seat has been represented by Firoz Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi’s grandfather and Indira Gandhi’s husband. Despite the wave of support for BJP in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, this seat remained with Congress and Sonia Gandhi had won from here. However, Sonia Gandhi has now vacated the prestigious seat for her son and gone to Rajya Sabha.
