Zee Media Bureau
Gurgaon: Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and Gurgaon candidate Yogendra Yadav on Thursday filed his nomination for the April 10 polls and declared his assets to the tune of about Rs 3 crore, which includes farm land, commercial booth and sizable amount of bank deposits and Provident Funds (PF).
Filing his nomination papers as AAP nominee from Gurgaon today, 50-year-old Yadav, who hails from Saharanwas village in Rewari district, said that the caste politics which is prevalent in the country since Independence would soon disappear as the Aam Aadmi Party is fighting elections for development and equality.
Talking to reporters after filing his nomination, the AAP candidate said he was not fighting elections against anybody, but against corruption, nepotism and criminality prevailing in the entire country. Builders and liquor mafia rule the state while a lay man keeps crying for basic amenities, he claimed.
He asserted that caste politics which is prevalent in the country since Independence would soon disappear as AAP candidates fighting elections in most of the Lok Sabha seats across the country are seeking votes for development and equality.
"Gurgaon parliamentary constituency is very diverse in many aspects as on one side there are hundreds of high-rise buildings with latest modern world-level facilities and on the other side Mewat, the area which has no infrastructure and is full of poor people," the AAP nominee said.
Yadav, in his declaration, stated that he has movable and immovable assets worth about Rs 3 crore in his and his wife Madhulika`s names.
While Yadav has movable and immovable assets worth Rs 81.43 lakh and Rs 1.32 crore respectively, his wife has movable assets of Rs 43.43 lakh and immovable assets of Rs 40 lakh.
The AAP leader has a meagre amount of Rs 2,000 as cash-in-hand, and his wife has cash worth Rs 68,800 including euros 800.
Yadav owns a 2010-make Maruti Ritz car, whose value stands at Rs 5.43 lakh.
The couple also have sizable bank deposits and other investments in bonds.
These include Rs 26 lakh in a PF account, over Rs 6.85 lakh in Yadav`s name at a UCO bank branch in Delhi, Rs 2 lakh in HDFC bank branch in Gurgaon, tax free bonds including one valued at Rs 6.56 lakh, one PPF account having Rs 7.5 lakh savings, Rs 9 lakh in post office saving scheme while wife has Rs 5 lakh worth tax free bonds, UTI-ULIP valued at Rs 3.70 lakh and GPF at Rs 6.2 lakh.
Among immovable assets, Yadav has two acres of farm land at Rewari worth Rs 90 lakh along with a commercial booth at Rewari valued at Rs 41 lakh, while his wife has a 50 per cent share in a 1100 square feet flat in Delhi`s I.P. Extension, with a value of Rs 40 lakh.
Other than Yadav, three other candidates too filed their nomination today. These include Dharampal Yadav of Congress, INLD`s Zakir Hussain and Dharampal Rathi of BSP .
Sitting MP Rao Inderjit Singh, who recently quit Congress to fight the elections on a BJP ticket, is yet to file his nomination.
The Congress governments in the state and at the Centre had not done anything for the economically-weaker sections of the society living in Mewat, BSP candidate Rathi told the reporters. "This district which is just 50 kilometres away from the national capital has no primary facilities," Rathi said.
With PTI Inputs
