503 Members of Parliament are yet to give their property details, list has many big names too
Kashipur: No matter how many claims are made for bringing transparency in the elections, but, the fact is that Members of Parliament and many ministers are themselves not serious about the cause. In a reply to a RTI, it was disclosed 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, 25 are from BJP, 8 from TMC and one each from BJD, Shiv Sena and AIDMK. Whereas, 503 MP’s had not submitted their details till 10th December, 2019.
Nadeem Uddin, a resident of Kashipur and a RTI activist had asked the details of the MP’s who have given and who have not 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, from BJP, 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.
TMC MP’s who have provided the required details are: Sajda Ahmad, Khaleelur Rehman, Deepak Adhikari, Mala Rai, Asit Kumar Mal, Sudip Bandopadhyay, Abu Tahir Khan and Prasoon Banerjee. Other then these, Gajanand Chandrakant Kirtikar from Shiv Sena, Achyutanand Samnat from BJD and P Ravindranath Kumar from AIDMK have also given their details.
PM Narendra Modi is 6th in the list of the people who have given their property details, and he furnished the same on 24th July 2019. MP’s from Uttarakhand who have given the required details are Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on number 5 and Mala Rajya Lakshmi Shah on number 35.
Senior cabinet ministers and leaders of all political parties are part of the list of MP’s who have not given the details. In the list of 503 such MP’s, Gandhi Nagar MP, Amit Shah is on 385th number whereas Raebareily MP, Sonia Gandhi is on115th and Waynad MP Rahul gandhi is on 114th number. 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. Out of the seven omitted MP’s, four took oath on 18th November, 2019, one MP passed away, one MP resigned and one MP did not take oath.
LJP’s Princeraj, NCP’s Shrinivas Dadasahib Patil, BJP’s Himadri Singh and DMK’s DM Kathir are the four MP’s 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 whereas, Udyan Raje Pratap Singh resigned on 14th September, 2019.
