Rakhi Birla owns Rs 1.6 lakh, Ashutosh 8 crore, says AAP

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party candidate from North West Delhi Rakhi Birla has Rs 1.6 lakh as movable assets, according to the declaration made by her during filing of nomination today. Two other candidates Ashutosh and Rajmohan Gandhi also filed their nomination papers from Chandni Chowk and East Delhi constituencies respectively. Rakhi Birla, who was born in a Dalit family, had shown her assets worth Rs 51,150 in her election affidavit in the previous Delhi Assembly polls. Today, she showed her movable assets worth around Rs 1.6 lakh and has a liability of Rs 2.3 lakh. [caption id=“attachment_1444933” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  A file photo of Rakhi Birla.[/caption] Birla’s father is a social worker and her mother was a sweeper in a government school. Ashutosh declared his assets worth around Rs 8 crores, which includes his and his wife’s movable and immovable assets. According to the affidavit, Ashutosh has shown movable assets owned by him and his wife Maneesha Taneja worth approximately Rs 40.5 lakhs. Ashutosh, a former journalist, possesses two vehicles–a Volkswagon and a two wheeler while his wife has 230 gms of gold worth around Rs 6.4 lakh. Rest is invested in deposits, insurance policies among others. Ashutosh and his wife jointly own two apartments in Noida. He also owns an apartment in Sector 105 in Noida. The total worth of his properties is Rs 7.7 crore. There are three cases pending against him into which court has taken cognisance. He along with his wife has a liability of Rs 1.1 crore. Raj Mohan Gandhi has shown Rs 7 lakh as income in his last year’s income tax return. Gandhi and wife’s total movable assets worth is Rs 2.1 crore which includes jewelleries worth Rs 3 lakh. His immovable assets include a non-agricultural land in Krishnagiri in Tamil Nadu, whose current market value is Rs 15 lakh. Gandhi owns two apartments– one each in Gurgaon and in USA worth approximately Rs 2.2 crore. His wife owns a house in Bangalore which is worth Rs 50 lakh. He has no liabilities and there are no cases pending against him. PTI