Saturday, September 3, 2011

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his cabinet ministers on Saturday declared their assets which were posted online, officials said. The list of assets and liabilities of the prime minister and his council of ministers were put on the prime minister's website - http://pmindia.nic.in/rti.htm. The list included details of the Prime Minister, 32 cabinet ministers, seven ministers of state with independent charge and 37 ministers of state. Urban development minister Kamal Nath is the richest cabinet minister with assets worth Rs 263 crore. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assets amount to Rs 5 crore. He has property worth Rs 1.8 crore, a Rs 90 lakh house in Chandigarh and a Rs 88 lakh apartment in Vasant Kunj in Delhi. His bank deposits amount to Rs 3.2 crore. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has assets worth Rs 1.8 crore. He owns property worth Rs 62 lakh and has assets and savings totalling Rs 1.2 crore. Home minister P Chidambaram has personal assets totalling Rs 11 crore. His wife has assets worth Rs 12.8 crore. Among the poorest is defence minister AK Antony, with personal assets worth Rs 1.8 lakh and his wife has assets worth Rs 30 lakh. Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has assets worth over Rs 12 crore that include deposits and shares in various companies. Petroleum minister Murli Deora and his wife have combined assets worth Rs 15.2 crore. His wife runs two companies and a proprietorship firm. Former textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran has assets worth Rs 2.94 crore. He and his wife have shares in Reliance Industries Limited. External affairs minister SM Krishna has immovable assets worth Rs 2.34 lakh, movable assets worth Rs 4.81 lakh, investments worth Rs 3 lakh, and savings worth Rs 12 lakh. His wife's assets are estimated at Rs 21 lakh.



NEW DELHI: Lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Saturday said he has received a breach of privilege notice for his remarks against parliamentarians, the second Team Anna member to get such a notice, Times Now reported. Bhushan said he has been accused of using derogatory words against MPs and has been asked to file a reply. Terming the notice as "totally unjustified", he told that "speaking the truth in public interest does not amount to breach of privilege". 

"If speaking truth in public interest amounts to breach of privilege, then time has come for the country to review the whole notion of parliamentary privileges," he said. 

Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi has also received breach of privilege notice for her remarks against parliamentarians. 

"Received Breach of Privilege. Shall respond appropriately recording the distrust 'we the people' were suffering," Bedi had tweeted. 

Bedi had said that she will not "apologise" for her remarks against politicians, but intends to show a "bigger mirror" to the House on the conduct of lawmakers. 

"If I get a notice, I would say I am sorry I will not be able to say sorry. If I get an opportunity I will go before the committee and will show a bigger mirror to Parliament," she had said. 

She said whatever she had said was in reference to a situation, where it was needed to be said. "The truth has to be said. I didn't have any other option as we didn't know whether we would have a resolution," she said. 

The privilege notice against Kiran Bedi came as she accused politicians of wearing "several masks" at the same time, drawing the ire of MPs from both Houses.
 

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