Deccan Chronicle:
Chennai: Tuesday, April 08, 2014.
Gnani
Sankaran, AAP candidate for the Alandur Assembly constituency, on Monday
created electoral history in Tamil Nadu by producing RTI documents to show that
the DMDK candidate Kamaraja had suppressed facts about the property and income
status of his wife. Returning officer R. Rajaram told this newspaper that Mr
Kamaraja had been asked to reply to the charges on Tuesday and approval for his
nomination had been put on hold.
Explaining Mr
Gnani said, “I produced RTI documents to the returning officer to prove that
Kamaraja’s wife, Beualah Hepziba, had bought a 900 sq ft property worth Rs 15
lakh, in K.K. Nagar, in October 2010, but he suppressed that information in his
affidavit while contesting for the Corporation councillor’s elections in 2011.”
During that poll in ward 138 of Chennai, Mr Kamaraja had claimed in his
property affidavit that his wife was not an IT assessee, had no PAN card and
owned no property. “However, in the property affidavit now filed for the
Alandur Assembly by-election, he has said that his wife was an IT assessee, had
a PAN card and a particular property was purchased by her in 2010,” Gnani said.
He said
despite purchasing the property in 2010, Mr Kamaraja had suppressed facts in
the affidavit filed before the EC during the Corporation elections, which he
has now inadvertently admitted.
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