Karandlaje, Rajeev Gowda among 87 candidates submit nominations a day ahead of deadline

Candidates in Bengaluru file nominations for Lok Sabha elections, declaring assets worth crores, including cars, gold, and property.

Several candidates including Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje, former Rajya Sabha member M.V. Rajeev Gowda, and former Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary filed their nominations on Wednesday, April 3, for the April 26 Lok Sabha elections, in Karnataka. Overall, 87 candidates filed 116 sets of nominations on Wednesday. 

M.V. Rajeev Gowda, the Congress candidate for Bengaluru North, has declared total assets worth ₹134.02 crore. This includes assets held by him and his family. While he has declared total assets worth ₹34.59 crore held by him, his wife Sharmila Bhaktaram is way richer than him with assets worth ₹99.42 crore (including ₹6.85 crore movable assets), as per the affidavit. Besides, he has declared movable assets of ₹2,20,813 in the name of his daughter Rishika Vijaylakshmi Gowda. 

His wife owns diamond and gold jewellery worth ₹37.67 crores. In 2014, when he was elected to the Rajya Sabha, Mr. Gowda had declared assets of ₹49 crore.

Mansoor Ali Khan, the Congress candidate for Bengaluru Central, has declared total assets worth ₹97.32 crore. This includes assets held by him, his wife Tasbia Khan and two sons.

While he has declared total movable assets worth ₹25.88 crore, his family’s immovable assets are worth ₹71.44 crore. The total assets held by him are worth ₹77.15 while his wife’s total assets are worth ₹19.74 crore, as per the affidavit. Besides, he has declared movable assets of ₹43.31 lakh in the name of his sons.

Apart from shares in Amanath Cooperative Bank and Al Ameen Housing Development Corporation, Mr. Khan owns an Audi S5 Sportback car worth over ₹98 lakh, investments in the realty sector and agricultural land besides bank deposits and gold 2.25 kgs of gold worth over ₹1.38 crore apart from membership in top-notch clubs. Apart from several residential flats in and around Bengaluru, he also owns a flat in Dubai.

Kota Srinivas Poojary, who has been a Member of the Legislative Council since 2009, a Minister thrice, and presently the Leader of the Opposition in the Council, is worth ₹2.94 crore. He and his family (wife, two daughters, and a son) own moveable assets worth ₹64.2 lakh and immovable assets worth ₹2.3 crore. The immoveable assets include a 4,770 sqft. house built upon 13 cents of land in Giliyar village near Kota.