Shimla, March 07: A Congress legislator in Himachal Pradesh today declared his assets and liabilities before the media and appealed other MLAs to follow suit. Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, a three-time MLA from Nadaun in Hamirpur district, held a press conference here during which he gave the details of the properties held by him.
Sukhu, who is also the state Congress vice president, said he had recently approached HP assembly to include details of his properties on its website but the plea was turned down on the ground that there was no such provision. “I will bring a private member bill in the ensuing budget session of the assembly for making such a provision,” he told reporters.
The former state Youth Congress president said he would make a request to the party to ask all its MLAs to declare their properties on party website “to promote transparency, morality and honestly in public life”. In a statement, containing details of his properties, the MLA claimed he has assets worth Rs 1.57 crore by way of houses and ancestral & personal land in Shimla, Baddi and his native place Nadaun and that his liabilities amount to Rs 62.20 lakh by way of bank loans.
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