As of 31 January 2024, the total assets of Sonia Gandhi, Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan, are around Rs 12 crore 53 lakh. In dollars, her total assets are 15 lakh dollars, so the claim made in the viral post that Sonia Gandhi’s total assets are more than two billion dollars is fake and political propaganda.
New Delhi (Viswas News). After the results of the Lok Sabha elections, a post went viral on social media claiming that Sonia Gandhi’s total assets are more than two billion dollars. The viral post says that Sonia Gandhi is among the 12 richest leaders of the country.
Vishwas News found this claim to be false in its investigation. Recently, Sonia Gandhi had decided not to contest the Lok Sabha elections due to health and age and after this she has been elected as a Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan. According to the affidavit given while filing nomination for Rajya Sabha in February 2024, Sonia Gandhi’s total assets are Rs 12.53 crore. During the last five years, Sonia Gandhi’s total assets have increased by Rs 72 lakh.
The viral post is based on a report published by the American website Huffington Post in 2013, in which Sonia Gandhi’s name was included in the list of 20 richest politicians, which she later removed admitting it was a mistake.
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Sonia Gandhi has been continuously elected from Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat from 2004 to 2019. News Report According to, due to health reasons, he decided not to contest the Lok Sabha elections in 2024 and filed nomination for Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan.
While filing her nomination for Rajya Sabha in 2024, Sonia Gandhi had given her affidavit, according to which, her total assets are Rs 12.53 crore, which has increased by 72 lakhs in the last five years. Also, Sonia Gandhi has ancestral property in Italy, which is worth more than Rs 26 lakh.
Sonia Gandhi’s 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019 photos given on ADR’s website myneta.info Affidavits is mentioned. His total assets were Rs 11 crore 82 lakh in 2019, which increased to Rs 12 crore 53 lakh in 2024.
the Central Election Commission Website But the data available confirms this. According to the affidavit given, till March 31, 2024, Sonia Gandhi’s total movable assets are about Rs 6 crore 38 lakh, while the immovable assets are about Rs 6 crore 15 lakh.
In dollar terms, Sonia Gandhi’s total assets are about 15 lakh dollars. This means that the claim that Sonia Gandhi’s total assets are more than two billion dollars is false and political propaganda.
We contacted Uttar Pradesh Congress spokesperson Abhimanyu Tyagi regarding the viral claim. He said that this is political propaganda being spread against Sonia Gandhi. He said that while filing nomination for the recent Rajya Sabha elections, she has given all the information about herself in the affidavit, which includes details of her total assets.
Notably, in 2002, in the case of Association of Democratic Reforms vs Union of India, the Supreme Court had upheld the decision of the Delhi High Court and held that voters have a fundamental right under Article 19 (1) (a) of the Constitution of India to know about the candidates’ criminal antecedents and other information, including their assets, which is essential for democracy.
Available on the website cjp.org.in Information According to the order, following this, the Election Commission had directed the candidates to file affidavits with the relevant information and under Section 33 (1) of the Representation of Peoples Act, failure to do so would render their nominations liable to be rejected as incomplete.
It is worth noting that in 2013, the American website Huffington Post published its Report In 2015, the Huffington Post released a list of the world’s 20 richest leaders, which it later removed admitting it was a mistake. While amending the report, the Huffington Post said that the names of Sonia Gandhi and former Qatari Amir Hamid bin Khalifa Al-Thani have been removed from the list.
The screenshot of the news seen in the viral post is based on this report. Fact check reports investigating other misleading and fake claims related to the elections can be found in the election section of Vishwas News. read May go.
Conclusion: As of 31 January 2024, the total assets of Sonia Gandhi, Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan, are around Rs 12 crore 53 lakh. In dollars, her total assets are 15 lakh dollars, so the claim made in the viral post that Sonia Gandhi’s total assets are more than two billion dollars is fake and political propaganda.
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