The cricketer-turned-politician, who will be making his electoral debut from East Delhi, has shown an income of nearly Rs 12.40 crore in the income tax returns filed for 2017-18
Gautam Gambhir
New Delhi: Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir is the richest among all the candidates in fray for the Lok Sabha election 2019 in Delhi with total assets worth Rs 147 core. The cricketer-turned-politician, who will be making his electoral debut from East Delhi from the BJP party, has shown an income of nearly Rs 12.40 crore in the income tax returns filed for 2017-18.
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SirWith an annual income of over Rs 12 crore, cricketer-turned-politician #GautamGambhir is among the richest of all the candidates in fray for the #LokSabhaelection in #Delhi.#Dangal2019
— IANS Tweets (@ians_india) April 24, 2019
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Accompanied our candidate Shri @GautamGambhir to the office of Returning Officer for filing his nomination papers.
— Chowkidar Maheish Girri (@MaheishGirri) April 23, 2019
East Delhi mein bhi #AayegaToModiHi :) pic.twitter.com/8mgjDevOs0
His wife Natasha Gambhir declared an income of Rs 6.15 lakh in the IT returns filed during the same period. Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari has a total of movable and immovable assets worth over Rs 24 crore, an increase of over Rs 4.33 crore from 2014, according to his poll affidavit. He has shown an income of Rs 48.03 lakh in the income tax return for 2017-18 while in the affidavit filed in 2014, he had declared an income of over Rs 85 lakh.
#BREAKING: BJP announces former Indian cricketer @GautamGambhir as its Candidate from East Delhi and sitting MP from New Delhi @M_Lekhi retains her candidature from the New Delhi constituency. pic.twitter.com/LLiQqpbV3Z
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) April 22, 2019
BJP MP from South Delhi Ramesh Bidhuri has movable and immovable assets worth Rs 18 crore, an increase of close to Rs 3.5 crore in the last five years, according to his affidavit. Bidhuri, his wife and dependent Himanshu have shown an income of over Rs 16.72 lakh, Rs 3.09 lakh and Rs 3.18 lakh respectively in the IT returns filed in 2017-18. The 57-year-old leader, who is pitted against debutants Vijender Singh from Congress and Aam Aadmi Party's Raghav Chadha for the South Delhi seat, declared movable assets worth over Rs 1.37 crore while his wife has cash and jewellery worth over Rs 13.21 lakh. He has declared immovable assets worth Rs 11.80 crore while his wife has properties worth 4.57 crore.
Joined our candidate Shri @GautamGambhir in his nomination rally. We all will work together to ensure a fabulous win for BJP in East Delhi. pic.twitter.com/LtFQPo4OYd
— Chowkidar Maheish Girri (@MaheishGirri) April 23, 2019
He has shown liabilities of over Rs 20.38 lakh. Bidhuri completed his graduation from the Delhi University's Shaheed Bhagat Singh College and LLB from Chaudhary Charan Singh University from Meerut. Congress candidate for South Delhi Vijender Singh has declared movable and immovable assets worth Rs 3.57 crore and Rs 5.05 crore respectively. Former chief minister and Congress candidate Sheila Dikshit, who filed her nomination from the North-East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency on Tuesday, declared personal assets worth over Rs 4.92 crore.
According to an affidavit filed by Dikshit, the 81-year-old Congress veteran has an apartment in Nizamuddin area which has a market value of around Rs 1.88 crore. Former Indian opener Gambhir (37) has declared immovable and movable assets worth over Rs 147 crore. He has a criminal case of cheating pending against him. He declared movable assets estimated to be worth over Rs 116 crore and immovable assets worth Rs 28 crore and liabilities nearly Rs 34.20 crore in his poll affidavit.
Congrats @GautamGambhir for plunging into electoral politics. #EastDelhi pic.twitter.com/VZlgj9OUzA
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#Delhi: BJP MP candidate from East Delhi, Gautam Gambhir holds roadshow ahead of filling his nomination, says, "I really want to contribute something to the country & whatever our PM has done in the last 5 years, I want to take that legacy forward." pic.twitter.com/eiGz9mcLCd
— ANI (@ANI) April 23, 2019
He completed his schooling from Modern School, Barakhamba Road and did his graduation from Delhi University's Hindu College. Punjabi singer Hans Raj Hans, who will be contesting from the North West Delhi, showed an income of nearly Rs 9.28 lakh in the income tax returns filed in 2017-18. In the 2013-14 financial year, he had declared an income of nearly Rs 22.64 lakh. He and his wife have declared movable assets worth Rs 1.44 crore and Rs 18.50 lakh respectively. His immovable assets are worth Rs 11.48 crore. He owns a Toyota Innova, Ford Endeavour and Maruti Gypsy. He has declared liabilities of over Rs 23.89 lakh.
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