Chandigarh. Two ‘Sports Utility Vehicles’ (SUVs), watches worth Rs 44 lakh and residential worth Rs 35 crore out of the total assets of Rs 44.63 crore declared by Navjot Singh Sidhu, Congress candidate from Amritsar East seat in Punjab Assembly elections and party’s Punjab unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. properties are included.
Sidhu (58), a former member of the Indian cricket team, filed his nomination before the returning officer in Amritsar for the February 20 assembly elections. In the affidavit given along with the nomination papers, Sidhu declared his assets. According to the affidavit, out of total assets worth Rs 44.63 crore, Sidhu and his wife and former MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu have movable and immovable assets worth Rs 3.28 crore and Rs 41.35 crore respectively.
According to this, the state Congress chief declared his total income in the financial year 2020-21 to be Rs 22.58 lakh, which is less than the income of Rs 94.18 lakh in 2016-17. The movable assets declared by Sidhu include two Toyota Land Cruisers worth Rs 1.19 crore, one Toyota Fortuner worth Rs 11.43 lakh, gold jewelery worth Rs 30 lakh and watches worth Rs 44 lakh. According to the affidavit, his wife Navjot Kaur has jewelery worth Rs 70 lakh.
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While in immovable properties, Sidhu has declared six showrooms in Patiala, but he does not have agricultural land. Sidhu has also declared his ancestral residence in Patiala spread over 1,200 square yards as assets worth Rs 1.44 crore. He has also given information about his 5,114 square yard residential property in Amritsar worth about Rs 34 crore.
The Punjab Congress chief has cited his graduation (BA) degree from Panjab University in Patiala in 1986 as an educational qualification. He has declared salary, rental income and pension from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as his sources of income as an MLA. (agency)