April 2 – Congress president Sonia Gandhi declared personal assets worth Rs.100 million in her affidavit filed before Rae Bareli district magistrate on Wednesday.
Her moveable assets include Rs.85,000 in cash, bank deposits of Rs.66 lakh, Rs.11.5 lakh in security bonds and Rs.85 lakh in mutual funds.
Besides, the UPA chairperson has also declared postal savings worth Rs.45 lakh and jewellery and other valuables worth Rs.62 lakh.
Interestingly, she also a Rs.9 lakh loan given to her son and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in October 2013.
The total worth of her moveable assets is Rs.28.1 million.
Gandhi’s immovable assets include 3.81 acre agricultural land worth Rs.6.5 crore in Sultanpur in Delhi.
She is not facing any court cases.
In her affidavit filed for 2009 Lok Sabha polls, Gandhi had declared that she did not have any car or house in India but an ancestral house in Italy.
In December last year, a report in The Huffington Post listed Gandhi as the 12th richest political leader in the world. The list included kings, presidents, sultans and queens with most rich leaders among the top 20 originating from the Middle East region.
The newspaper said Gandhi’s wealth was worth US$2 billion and that she was even richer than Elizabeth II, the Queen of England, and Bashar Al-Assad, President of Syria.
Quickly afterwards, the newspaper issued a clarification that it relied wrongfully on a third-party source to calculate Gandhi’s wealth and apologised to the UPA chairperson.
-India Today
