Karunanidhi, Jayalalithaa declare assets

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and his rival J Jayalalithaa are worth a little less than Rs 100 crore if their declared assets are clubbed together.

While Karunanidhi has declared assets worth Rs 41 crore, Jayalalithaa has come out with assets of Rs 51 crore.

Both the leaders have made their assets public as per the Election Commission guidelines ahead of next month?s state Assembly polls.

Karunanidhi?s assets include the property of his two wives Dayalu and Rajathi.

His own assets amount to Rs 4.92 crore.

Dayalu, mother of Union minister MK Alagiri and state deputy CM Stalin, owns immovable properties worth Rs 15.4 crore.

She also has a car worth Rs 16 lakhs and 60 per cent stake in Kalaignar TV, valued at Rs 6 crore.

Besides, Dayalu owns gold jewellery worth Rs 10.96 lakhs and other jewellery worth Rs 1.6 lakhs and a house in Tiruvarur worth Rs.5.51 lakhs.

Rajathi, mother of MP Kanimozhi, has immovable property worth Rs 20.6 crore.

She also has 25 lakh shares worth Rs 2.5 crore in Westgate Logistics firm and gold jewellery worth Rs 9.85 lakhs.

Rajathi also owns a house in Chennai valued at Rs 3.14 crore.

Jayalalithaa, a former Tamil Nadu chief minister herself, has declared assets worth Rs 51.40 crore.

The assets include Rs 25,000 cash in hand and bank balance of Rs 4.5 lakhs and five cars worth Rs 8.35 lakhs.

She also has agricultural land worth Rs 11.3 crore and owns four commercial buildings in Chennai and Hyderabad valued at Rs 6 crore 39 lakhs.

Jayalalithaa also revealed that bank deposits amounting to Rs 2 crore and investment in shares worth Rs.50,000 have been seized by the police and given to the custody of the court.