Assets of CPI-M’s Salim up 20% to over Rs 40 lakh

Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) CPI-M candidate in West Bengal's Raiganj, Mohammed Salim's movable assets have increased to about Rs 40.03 lakh, up by 20 per cent from Rs 33.17 lakh declared in 2014, while those of his wife, a medical practitioner, have declined marginally.

Of the assets listed in his 2019 affidavit, he has declared Rs 35,631 as deposits in public sector banks including SBI's Parliament House branch and over Rs 38.09 lakh as investments in mutual funds, bonds and shares.

Salim possesses Rs 2,500 cash in hand while his wife Rosina Khatun has Rs 6,500 cash in hand. She has bank deposits worth Rs 21,870 and Rs 28.33 lakh worth of investments in shares, bonds and mutual funds.

The couple has investments of Rs 3.24 lakh in insurance policies and National Savings Certificates.

As declared in the affidavit, Rosina Khatun's overall movable assets stand at Rs 35.16 lakh, down marginally from Rs 35.80 lakh declared ahead of 2014 general elections.

Salim possess jewellery worth Rs 5,500 while his wife has Rs 1.80 lakh worth of old and used ornaments and owns a car.

A 1,219 square feet flat in a cooperative housing society at upmarket Salt Lake here, for which Rs 9.70 lakh was paid, has been declared in his wife's name but the property is yet to be registered as per the affidavit.

Another residential establishment with a current market value of Rs 12 lakh in a housing complex in north Bengal's Siliguri has also been declared in name of his wife.

Raiganj's sitting MP, Salim is pitted against Deepa Dasmunsi of Congress and Kanaia Lal Agarwal of the Trinamool Congress in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.