Mulayam has different lists of assets for SC, EC

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has filed two different affidavits before the Supreme Court and the Returning Officer...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has filed two different affidavits before the Supreme Court and the Returning Officer (RO), on assets owned by him and his family members. This, while the Central Bureau of Investigation is inquiring into the allegations of disproportionate assets owned by him and his family on a Supreme Court directive.

Mulayam’s rival candidate from Congress Ajay Kumar has filed a complaint with the Election Commission on the issue. Kumar alleges that the Samajwadi Party chief, who has mentioned his wife Sadhna’s assets in the affidavit to the RO, has skipped its mention in the one filed before the apex court. The chief minister has shown that Sadhna has a bank balance of over Rs15 lakh, besides owning a Toyota car, the cost of which is shown as over Rs 17 lakh, and a motorcycle worth Rs 50,589. The undertaking also shows that his wife owns jewellery worth Rs 77,16,040, furniture and other fittings which take the total worth of assets on Sadhna’s name above Rs 1crore, the complaint says.

Similarly, other details furnished by the UP chief minister in his undertaking before the court do not find mention before the RO, like the particulars of movable and immovable assets owned by his dependent son, Prateek Yadav.

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Kumar’s complaint, alleging false affidavit was filed before the RO, requests the Election Commission to probe all such “irregularities” which seem to be tumbling out of undertakings filed before two different statutory bodies.

It also states that while this year Mulayam Singh has shown Sadhna Yadav as his wife, while contesting for the post of MP from Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency in 2004, he had not disclosed the assets of his wife.

Kumar adds that surpassing the prescribed norms and process, the RO had dismissed his complaint terming it as “without merit”.

There are other details “like assets owned by Prateek Yadav — his plot (No 283) was sold for a sum of Rs 2,50,00,000 to one M/S Lija Builders Pvt Limited in 2005, and a house (No 2/81) on Vikramaditya Marg in Lucknow was sold for Rs 1,72,00,000 on October 7, 2005” have not been mentioned in the undertaking to the RO, alleges Kumar. These details find mention before the SC Bench, which is hearing a petition filed by Congress activist Vishwanath Chaturvedi.

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“Besides this, Mulayam Singh has fixed deposits worth Rs 25,50,569, shown by him in his I-T Return for the year 2004-05,” says the complaint made to the EC.