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The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) General Secretary has filed her affidavit to contest from Dr Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency in Chennai in the upcoming Legislative Assembly election scheduled to be held on May 16, 2016.
According to the affidavit filed by Jayalalithaa with the Election Commission on Monday, the total value of the movable assets is Rs 41.63 crore, while the total value of self acquired assets (immovable assets) is Rs 72.09 crore. Put together, the total assets of the chief minister is currently valued around Rs 113.73 crore.
This is around Rs 3.4 crore lesser than the total value of assets filed by Jayalalithaa when she contested in the 2015 by-election from the same constituency. While the total value of self acquired assets (immovable assets) remained Rs 72.09 crore, the value of the movable assets was Rs 45.04 crore in 2015. Put together, on June 5, 2015, when she filed the affidavit, the total value of the assets she had was Rs 117.13 crore. The total liabilities she has is around Rs 2.04 crore.
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The total income shown was Rs 33.22 lakh, excluding income exempt from tax, during the filing on June 2015, which became Rs 95.23 lakh, excluding income exempt from tax, when she filed the affidavit on Monday.
There was a decline of Rs 4.25 crore in terms of investment in various firms as a partner, between June 2015 and April 2016. The investment in the firms was Rs 31.68 crore when the affidavit was filed for the by-election, while the total capital as on March 31, 2016 was Rs 27.44 crore.
During the 2011 elections, as per the affidavit filed, she submitted that the total value of movable assets were around Rs 13.03 crore and immovable assets as per the market value or guideline value was Rs 38.37 crore, while the approximate total value of market price of asset during the period was Rs 51.4 crore. During the period, when a disproportionate asset case against her was pending, the investment into four firms was a total of Rs 10.90 crore.
It may be noted that a Special Court in Bengaluru, in 2014, ordered her as guilty in a Rs 66.64 crore disproporationate asset case and sentenced her four years imprisonment and Rs 100 crore fine. Later the Karnataka High Court has acquitted her and three others, in an order stating that the disproportionate assets in J Jayalalithaa's case was Rs 2.82 crore and is within permissible limit. The dispute is currently pending with the Supreme Court.
Karunanidhi's wealth grows in five years
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) President and former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has seen his wealth increasing from Rs 4.92 crore in 2011 to Rs 13.42 crore by 2016. This is apart from the wealth reported in the name of his life partners Dayalu Ammal and Rajathi Ammal.
According to the affidavit filed by the DMK supremo on Monday, the value of movable assets is worth Rs 13.42 crore, while the movable assets under the name of his wife Dayalu Ammal and Rajathi Ammal are Rs 7.44 crore and Rs 37.9 crore respectively. Karunanidhi does not have any immovable assets, according to the affidavit. The total value of self acquired assets of Dayalu Ammal is Rs 8.03 lakh, and of Rajathi Ammal is Rs 4.14 crore. Rajathi Ammal has total liability of Rs 11.94 crore, while Karunanidhi and Dayalu Ammal does not have any liabilities.
During 2011, the value of movable assets of Dayalu Ammal and Rajathi Ammal were Rs 15.39 crore and Rs 20.62 crore respectively. The approximate guideline value of immovable properties held by them were Rs 5.51 lakh and Rs 3.14 crore respectively, during the period. During 2011, Karunanidhi had a liability of Rs 10 lakh,while Rajathi Ammal had a laibility of Rs 1.01 crore.
The DMK leader has filed his nomination on Monday to contest in the Thiruvarur constituency, in Thiruvarur district. He contested in the same constituency, which his home town, and won the election in 2011.
