Mumbai: A losing MNS candidate has challenged
the election of Kripashankar Singh, president of Mumbai
Regional Congress Committee, to Maharashtra assembly on the
grounds that Singh did not make full disclosure of his wife`s
assets.
Chandrakant More, the petitioner, lost to Singh from
Kalina, Mumbai, in the October 2009 Maharashtra Assembly
elections.
More has filed an election petition in the Bombay High
Court, seeking to set aside Singh`s election.
The petition alleges Singh`s affidavit, filed along with
nomination papers, did not mention that his wife Malati owns a
flat in suburban Vile Parle, agricultural land in Uttar
Pradesh as well in Maharashtra and a shop in neighbouring
Panvel.
Malati Singh, along with one Narendra Singh, purchased a
flat in Vile Parle for Rs 57 lakh in 2006, according to the
petitioner.
Further, she owns land in Jounpur in UP and at Rajapur
in Maharashtra (measuring .061 hectare and 15 hectare
respectively) and a shop in Panvel worth Rs 1,33,000, More
alleges.
Apart from these omissions, the petition also alleges
Singh posseses two PAN numbers because he had given different
PAN numbers in his 2004 affidavit and in the present
affidavit.
PTI
