Tejasvi Surya's assets surge from ₹13 Lakh to ₹4 Crore in five years: Affidavit
Bengaluru: Tejasvi Surya, the Member of Parliament for Bengaluru South Lok Sabha Constituency, has seen a significant increase in his assets over the past five years, according to affidavit documents filed on Thursday.
When Surya filed his nomination papers for his first election on a BJP ticket in 2019, he declared his total assets to be ₹13.46 lakh. However, his net worth has now risen to ₹4.10 crore, marking a 30-fold increase.
The primary sources of this income growth, as per Surya's affidavit, are investments in mutual funds and stocks. He has invested ₹1.99 crore in mutual funds and ₹1.79 crore in stocks.
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Surya is also the president of BJP's youth wing, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). He currently faces three pending cases, two of which were registered following a BJP protest in Bengaluru's Nagarathpet in March. These cases include charges related to promoting hatred between communities, unlawful assembly, and others. The third case was registered at the Civil Lines police station in New Delhi in March 2022, where BJYM activists attacked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence.
The Lok Sabha elections for the 28 seats in Karnataka will be held in two phases, on April 26 and May 7.
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Illegally stored gas cylinders seized
Thane (PTI): Authorities have seized illegally stored 1,839 gas cylinders and seven vehicles worth over Rs 67 lakh in the Dombivli MIDC area of Thane district, officials said on Saturday.
A special vigilance team of the Mumbai Rationing Department detected an illegal storage of domestic and commercial LPG cylinders in Phase-2 of Dombivli (East).
Cylinders belonging to multiple gas agencies were found stockpiled in closed vehicles, unauthorised warehouses, and open sheds without mandatory permissions from the Explosives Department, Fire Department, or oil companies, according to an official release.
