Assets Of Political Parties

The total assets declared by eight national parties in 2021-22 was Rs 8,829.16 crore, up from Rs 7,297.62 crore during 2020-21, poll rights body ADR said in its report.

Union Minister Pashupati Kumar Paras on Tuesday asserted that he is the political "heir" of former Lok Janshakti Party chief and his late brother Ram Vilas Paswan, while Chirag Paswan will inherit only his father's financial assets by law.

The BJP declared assets worth Rs 4,847.78 crore in financial year 2019-20, the highest among all political parties, followed by the BSP at Rs 698.33 crore and the Congress at Rs 588.16 crore, according to poll reforms advocacy group ADR.

The total assets of the BJP, India's richest political party, rose by 22.27% in 2017-18 to touch Rs 1,483.35 crore over the previous financial year's declaration of Rs 1,213 crore, the Association of Democratic Reforms has reported.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and two of his TDP colleagues are among the richest candidates contesting the assembly elections in the southern state, according to the political data-crunching non-profit ADR. Chandrababu Naidu, who heads the Telugu Desam Party, is the third-richest candidate in the state elections with declared a...

The value of declared assets of BJP has increased from Rs 122.93 crore in 2004-05 to Rs 893.88 crore in 2015-16 while that of Congress, it has risen from Rs 167.35 crore to Rs 758.79 crore, according to the NGOs Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Election Watch.

The 46-year-old has had a tumultuous two and a half years. But not only has he shown himself to be a political survivor, he has also emerged as one of the BJP's biggest assets by exponentially expanding his party's footprint across India's second-largest state.

A Congress minister in Karnataka and another senior party official have not been able to explain assets worth nearly 162 crores, according to tax officials. 41 lakhs in cash and 12 kilos of gold and jewels were recovered from searches last week at the homes and offices of minister Ramesh Jarkiholi and Laxmi Hebbalkar, who heads the Women's Wing of ...

Even as political parties spar over enacting a new land acquisition law, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya has suggested alternative ways for states and industry to get hold of this crucial asset for development, such as long-term lease and land-pooling.

Coming out strongly in support of his party colleague A Raja, DMK president M Karunanidhi today alleged that the disproportionate assets case had been filed against the former telecom minister out of political vendetta.

The DMK has threatened to sue Justice Markandey Katju for declaring that an allegedly corrupt judge was kept in office at the Madras High Court because the political party threw its weight behind him. Demanding an unconditional apology, the DMK's Organizing Secretary R S Bharathi also suggested the former judge must explain the value of assets that...

Egypt's state news agency says the country's administrative court has dissolved the political party of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets liquidated.

Jaganmohan Reddy, the founder of the YSR Congress, a party he named after his father, has applied for anticipatory bail. His move comes 24 hours ahead of a scheduled interrogation by the CBI in connection with a corruption case - one that could affect not just Mr Reddy's political fortunes, but that of several other leaders from the party he quit i...

As she filed her nomination for the Rajya Sabha, Mayawati revealed the details of her wealth. 111 crores, up by 24% in two years. She owns 308 carats of diamonds, a kilo of gold, two shops in Connaught Place in Delhi, a 60-crore house on Delhi's posh Sardar Patel Marg and a gun worth Rs 5000. The Samajwadi Party wants to know how she's made this...

YSR Congress party honorary president and Member of Legislative Assembly Y S Vijayamma today appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to direct the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to act "impartially" without yielding to pressure from its 'political bosses' in the investigations against her son and Kadapa Member of Parliament Y S Jaganmohan ...

The total assets declared by eight national parties in 2021-22 was Rs 8,829.16 crore, up from Rs 7,297.62 crore during 2020-21, poll rights body ADR said in its report.

Union Minister Pashupati Kumar Paras on Tuesday asserted that he is the political "heir" of former Lok Janshakti Party chief and his late brother Ram Vilas Paswan, while Chirag Paswan will inherit only his father's financial assets by law.

The BJP declared assets worth Rs 4,847.78 crore in financial year 2019-20, the highest among all political parties, followed by the BSP at Rs 698.33 crore and the Congress at Rs 588.16 crore, according to poll reforms advocacy group ADR.

The total assets of the BJP, India's richest political party, rose by 22.27% in 2017-18 to touch Rs 1,483.35 crore over the previous financial year's declaration of Rs 1,213 crore, the Association of Democratic Reforms has reported.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and two of his TDP colleagues are among the richest candidates contesting the assembly elections in the southern state, according to the political data-crunching non-profit ADR. Chandrababu Naidu, who heads the Telugu Desam Party, is the third-richest candidate in the state elections with declared a...

The value of declared assets of BJP has increased from Rs 122.93 crore in 2004-05 to Rs 893.88 crore in 2015-16 while that of Congress, it has risen from Rs 167.35 crore to Rs 758.79 crore, according to the NGOs Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Election Watch.

The 46-year-old has had a tumultuous two and a half years. But not only has he shown himself to be a political survivor, he has also emerged as one of the BJP's biggest assets by exponentially expanding his party's footprint across India's second-largest state.

A Congress minister in Karnataka and another senior party official have not been able to explain assets worth nearly 162 crores, according to tax officials. 41 lakhs in cash and 12 kilos of gold and jewels were recovered from searches last week at the homes and offices of minister Ramesh Jarkiholi and Laxmi Hebbalkar, who heads the Women's Wing of ...

Even as political parties spar over enacting a new land acquisition law, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya has suggested alternative ways for states and industry to get hold of this crucial asset for development, such as long-term lease and land-pooling.

Coming out strongly in support of his party colleague A Raja, DMK president M Karunanidhi today alleged that the disproportionate assets case had been filed against the former telecom minister out of political vendetta.

The DMK has threatened to sue Justice Markandey Katju for declaring that an allegedly corrupt judge was kept in office at the Madras High Court because the political party threw its weight behind him. Demanding an unconditional apology, the DMK's Organizing Secretary R S Bharathi also suggested the former judge must explain the value of assets that...

Egypt's state news agency says the country's administrative court has dissolved the political party of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets liquidated.

Jaganmohan Reddy, the founder of the YSR Congress, a party he named after his father, has applied for anticipatory bail. His move comes 24 hours ahead of a scheduled interrogation by the CBI in connection with a corruption case - one that could affect not just Mr Reddy's political fortunes, but that of several other leaders from the party he quit i...

As she filed her nomination for the Rajya Sabha, Mayawati revealed the details of her wealth. 111 crores, up by 24% in two years. She owns 308 carats of diamonds, a kilo of gold, two shops in Connaught Place in Delhi, a 60-crore house on Delhi's posh Sardar Patel Marg and a gun worth Rs 5000. The Samajwadi Party wants to know how she's made this...

YSR Congress party honorary president and Member of Legislative Assembly Y S Vijayamma today appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to direct the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to act "impartially" without yielding to pressure from its 'political bosses' in the investigations against her son and Kadapa Member of Parliament Y S Jaganmohan ...