Chennai: Gnani Sankaran, AAP candidate for the Alandur Assembly constituency, on Monday created electoral history in Tamil Nadu by producing RTI documents to show that the DMDK candidate Kamaraja had suppressed facts about the property and income status of his wife. Returning officer R. Rajaram told this newspaper that Mr Kamaraja had been asked to reply to the charges on Tuesday and approval for his nomination had been put on hold.
Explaining Mr Gnani said, “I produced RTI documents to the returning officer to prove that Kamaraja’s wife, Beualah Hepziba, had bought a 900 sq ft property worth Rs 15 lakh, in K.K. Nagar, in October 2010, but he suppressed that information in his affidavit while contesting for the Corporation councillor’s elections in 2011.” During that poll in ward 138 of Chennai, Mr Kamaraja had claimed in his property affidavit that his wife was not an IT assessee, had no PAN card and owned no property. “However, in the property affidavit now filed for the Alandur Assembly by-election, he has said that his wife was an IT assessee, had a PAN card and a particular property was purchased by her in 2010,” Gnani said.
He said despite purchasing the property in 2010, Mr Kamaraja had suppressed facts in the affidavit filed before the EC during the Corporation elections, which he has now inadvertently admitted.
