Tamil Naadu polls: Khushbu Sundar declares Rs 22.55 crore as assets, state BJP chief L Murugan owns Rs 1.53 cr

Chennai: Actor-turned-politician Khushbu Sundar , the BJP candidate from Thousand Lights constituency in the city, on Thursday filed her nomination for the 6 April Tamil Nadu assembly polls, declaring assets worth about Rs 22.55 crore. BJP state unit president and party nominee from Dharapuram (Reserved) constituency L Murugan declared assets (movable and immovable) worth Rs 1.53 crore and the value of assets of his spouse Dr C Kalayarasi is Rs 1.09 crore. While Khushbu’s self-acquired, immovable assets were to the tune of Rs 17.99 crore, it was Rs 16.57 crore with regards to her husband, Sundar C, a noted filmmaker. The moveable assets of the actor and that of her husband is Rs 4.55 crore and Rs 1.83 crore respectively. She has loans of Rs 3.45 crore and her spouse Rs 5.55 crore, the BJP member declared in the affidavit filed with her nomination papers. The duo’s immovable assets include non-farm lands in more than one location in Tamil Nadu besides flats and residential buildings in Chennai and suburbs. Khushbu, who joined the BJP in October last year after ending her six-year-old association with the Congress, also has residential buildings in Telangana and Udhagamandalam (Ooty) which includes land portion as well. She has a total of four criminal cases pending against her.