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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Women BJP MLAs protest against opposition in UP assembly premises
Lucknow (PTI): Women BJP MLAs held a protest in the Vidhan Bhawan complex before the one-day special session of Uttar Pradesh assembly, slamming the opposition for defeating the passage of a bill, which would have led to implementation of the Women's Reservation Law, in the Lok Sabha.
This followed another demonstration by Samajwadi Party MLAs, who alleged that the BJP was misleading public in the name of women's reservation.
The women BJP legislators assembled in front of Chaudhary Charan Singh's statue in the assembly premises, holding banners inscribed with the slogan "Insult to Matrushakti (women's power), India will not tolerate it". The protesting members entered the main hall of Vidhan Bhawan carrying the banners.
Participating in the protest, the state Minister for Women Welfare and Child Development, Baby Rani Maurya, told reporters that all opposition parties, including the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, had opposed the women's reservation, a stance for which they would have to pay a heavy political price.
"On this issue, all of us women stand united. We will ensure that we secure our reservation," she said.
BJP MLA Ketki Singh remarked that their protest represents the collective outrage of millions of women across the state.
Singh asserted that the opposition has betrayed women by creating hurdles in the path of women's reservation. The current demonstration is merely the beginning, and very soon, women from every street, intersection and household will join the protest movement, she said.
Minister Vijaylakshmi Gautam said, "We strongly condemn the despicable act committed by the Samajwadi Party and the Congress in an attempt to hold back 'half the population' (women). Their action was directed against the very bill that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had introduced to empower and strengthen Nari Shakti (women's power), and which he strived to pass expeditiously."
Uttar Pradesh assembly is holding a one-day special session on Thursday. During the session, the government is set to move a censure motion against the opposition parties over their failure to pass the Constitution Amendment Bill, which would have led to implementation of the Women's Reservation Act, in the Lok Sabha.
