503 MP's yet to give details of assets reveals RTI

Only 36 Lok Sabha MPs, including PM Modi, have given the details of assets in the Lok Sabha Secretariat within the specific time. As per the RTI, 503 MPs including Congress President Sonia Gandhi, SP President Akhilesh Yadav have failed to furnish property details after getting elected in the May 2019 parliamentary elections.

Kashipur: In a startling revelation, an RTI query revealed that only 36 MPs of Lok Sabha have given the details of assets in Lok Sabha Secretariat within the specific time frame.

503 MPs have not given their property details til 10 December 2019. This disclosure was made by the information available by the Lok Sabha Secretariat to the Right to Information Activist Nadimuddin under RTI.

Kashipur resident and right to information activist Nadimuddin had sought information from the Public Information Officer of the Lok Sabha Secretariat under the Lok Sabha Member (Declaration of Property and Obligations) Rules, 2014 for the declaration and non-disclosure of assets and liabilities.

In response to this, the information of the members declaring and not declaring the assets and liabilities of the 17th Lok Sabha has been provided by the Public Information Officer of the Lok Sabha Secretariat till 10 December 2019.

According to the information provided to Advocate Nadimuddin, only 36 members of the Lok Sabha have declared their assets till 10 December 2019 which include 25 MPs from BJP, eight TMC and one each from BJD, Shiv Sena and AIDMK.

Suresh Angadi, Ratan Lal Kataria, Prahlath Joshi, Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, PM Narendra Modi, Smriti Zubin Irani, Vishnu Dayal Ram, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Narendra, according to the list available to Nadeem Singh Tomar, Raju Bista, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Kailash Chaudhary, Devashree Chaudhary, Sanjay Shyamrao Dhotre, Dr Satpal Singh, Anurag Sharma, Prahlad Singh Patel, Mahesh Sharma, Nishikant Dubey, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Raja Amreswar Nayak, Hansraj Hans and Mala Rajya Laxmishah are the names of MPs who have declared their assets.

TMC MPs include Sajda Ahmed, Khalilur Rahman, Deepak Adhikari, Mala Rai, Asit Kumar Mal, Sudeep Bandhopadhyay, Abu Tahir Khan and Prasoon Banerjee. Apart from this, Gajanand Chandrakant Kirtikar of Shiv Sena, Achyutananda Samanat of BJD and P. Ravindra Nath Kumar of AIDMK are included.

In the list of those giving property details, the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has given eight-page property details on 24 July 2019, is included on serial number 6.

Among the MPs of Uttarakhand who have given property details, Human Resources Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank's name is on number 5 and the name of Mala State Laxmishah is on number 35.

The list of non-giving property details includes the names of prominent leaders of various parties, including various ministers of the Union Cabinet.

From Gandhinagar at number 385 is the name of MP Amit Shah, Rae Bareli MP Sonia Gandhi is on 115 and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi is on 114 are included.

According to Rule 3 of the Lok Sabha Member (Declaration of Property and Obligations) Rules 2004, it is a rule for every Lok Sabha MP to give notice of his property obligations to the Lok Sabha Secretariat within 90 days from the date of oath-taking.

All the MPs, except the seven MPs of the 17th Lok Sabha, had to give details of the property obligations under this rule to the Lok Sabha Secretariat before 10 December 2019.

Four MPs have time to submit the details according to the RTI reply.

The four MPs who took oath on 18 November 2019 include LJP's Princeraj, NCP's Srinivas Dadasaheb Patil, BJP's Himadri Singh and DMK's DM Kathir Anand.

Ramchandra Paswan died on 21 July 2019 and Atul Rai did not take oath till 10 December 2019.

Udayan Raje Pratap Singh Bhosale resigned on 14 September 2019.