Delhi Elections : Krishna Tirath three times richer than last LS polls
North-West Delhi’s Congress candidate Krishna Tirath on Monday filed her nomination papers in presence of Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and a large number of supporters. Tirath faces BJP’s Meera Kawaria in the seat which is Delhi’s sole reserved constituency.
As per the affidavit filed by her, the net worth of her and her husband, Vijay Kumar, has gone up by more than three times since the 2004 elections when they were together worth Rs 64,15,254. The present figure stands at Rs 2,11,46,350. The couple though now have only one car a 2006 model Wagon R as against two a 2000 model Zen and a 1999 model Santro five years ago.
Between the two of them, they have acquired 206 gm of gold in the past five years. Tirath acquired 330 gm of gold. She owns gold worth Rs 15.5 lakh while her husband owns gold worth Rs 3 lakh.
Tirath owns a 440 square metre residential plot in HUDA’s Sector 21 whose value has gone up from Rs 10 lakh in 2004 to Rs 40 lakh. Her husband owns two houses, a 84 square metre flat in Shalimar Bagh valued at Rs 40 lakh and a 75 square yard house in Karol Bagh, also valued at Rs 40 lakh. In 2004 each was said to be worth Rs 15 lakh.
Tirath had won the now deleted Karol Bagh seat in 2004, before which for a brief while she was deputy speaker of the state Assembly. She had been a minister in the state cabinet after the 1998 elections.
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