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In the affidavit filed by Amit Shah on Saturday, 30 March, while submitting his nomination for the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha Seat, Shah’s assets have grown three times in the last seven years.
While Shah had Rs 20,633 cash in hand at the time of filing the papers, his wife possessed Rs 72,578. Shah and his wife have a cumulative income of Rs 2.84 crore as per their latest Income Tax Returns (ITR).
In Saturday's affidavit, Shah has mentioned that he and his wife's annual incomes, as per ITR of 2017-18, stood at Rs 2.84 crore, which comprised Rs 53.90 lakh for Shah and Rs 2.30 crore for Sonalben.
Shah's affidavit mentions his sources of income as salary received as Rajya Sabha MP, rent on properties and income from agricultural activity.
In 2017, when Shah contested the Rajya Sabha polls from Gujarat, he had declared assets worth Rs 34.31 crore. The latest affidavit, thus, puts the rise in his assets at Rs 4.5 crore since 2017.
While fighting the 2012 Assembly polls, Shah had declared that he along with his family, including wife Sonalben and son Jay (who was a dependent at the time), owned movable and immovable assets worth Rs 11.79 crore.
It also stated that Shah had not pursued his Bachelor of Commerce degree beyond the second year.
The first one was registered in West Bengal over an inflammatory speech during the municipality polls this year.
The second, pending before a metropolitan magistrate in Kolkata, was a defamation suit. The third, registered in Muzaffarpur in Bihar in 2017, was regarding a YouTube video showing Shah hoisting the national flag while wearing shoes.
The fourth case was registered in Begusarai in Bihar in 2015 for making some remarks against Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, the affidavit said.
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