Kashipur(Uttarakhand): Do you really think the elections in India are transparent enough? If your answer is yes, then you are wrong! In a reply to RTI, it was disclosed that 503 MP's had not submitted their property details till 10th December 2019.
It's sad to know that Members of Parliament who have been given the responsibility to run the country are themselves not serious about the entire electoral procedure. You will be surprised to know that only 36 Members of Parliament have given details of properties and assets in their and their dependants' name to the Lok Sabha secretariat.
Out of these 36 names, 25 are from BJP, 8 from TMC and one each from BJD, Shiv Sena and AIDMK.
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PM holds 6th position
Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds 6th position in the list of those MP's who have disclosed their property details. The entire matter comes to the fore when Nadeem Uddin, a resident of Kashipur and an RTI activist had asked the details of the MP’s who have given the details of their assets and properties under the Member of Parliament (Declaration of properties and duties) 2004 rule, from the Lok Sabha secretariat.
In reply to this RTI, the Lok Sabha secretariat furnished the list of such parliamentarians till 10th December 2019. As per the list provided to the activist, the names of MP’s who have provided their details include Suresh Angadi, Ratan Lal Kataria, Prahlad Joshi, Doctor Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, PM Narendra Modi, Smriti Zubin Irani, Vishnu Dayal Sharma, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Kailash Chowdhary, Devashri Chowdhry, Sanjay Shyamrao Dhotre, Doctor Satpal Singh, Anurag Sharma, Prahlad Singh Patel Mahesh Sharma, Nishikant Dubey, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Raja Amresvar Nayak, Hansraj Hans and Mala Rajya Lakshmi Shah and all of them belong to Bhartiya Janta Party.
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Talking about Mamata's Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 8 MP's have given their property details. Names of these ministers are Sajda Ahmad, Khaleelur Rehman, Deepak Adhikari, Mala Rai, Asit Kumar Mal, Sudip Bandopadhyay, Abu Tahir Khan and Prasoon Banerjee respectively.
Other then these, Gajanand Chandrakant Kirtikar from Shiv Sena, Achyutanand Samnat from BJD and P Ravindranath Kumar from AIDMK have also given their details. As far as Uttarakhand is concerned, Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on number 5 and Mala Rajya Lakshmi Shah on number 35 have given their required details.
Congress lacks behind
Senior cabinet ministers and leaders of all political parties have not yet given their property details. In the list of 503 such MP’s, Union Home Minister and Gandhi Nagar MP Amit Shah is on 385th number whereas Raebareily MP Sonia Gandhi is on 115th position. Waynad MP Rahul Gandhi holds 114th rank.
As per the provisions of the LokSabha Member(Property and Duties Declaration) 2004 rule, every elected MP has to furnish the required details with the Lok Sabha secretariat within 90 days from the day of taking the oath.
Leaving seven members of the 17th Lok Sabha, all others had to submit these details by the 10th December 2019. LJP’s Princeraj, NCP’s Shrinivas Dadasahib Patil, BJP’s Himadri Singh and DMK’s DM Kathir are the four MPs who took oath on 18th November 2019. Ramchandra Paswan had passed away on 21st July 2019 and Atul Rai did not take oath till 10th December 2019. Udyan Raje Pratap Singh resigned on 14th September 2019.
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