Actor Sunny Deol declares assets worth Rs 81.47 crore, liabilities of Rs 51.80 crore

Actor and BJP candidate Sunny Deol, whose real name is Ajay Singh Deol, filed his nomination papers from the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat in Punjab. Deol has declared assets worth over Rs 81.47 crore.

Actor and BJP candidate Sunny Deol with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: Twitter

CHANDIGARH: Actor and BJP candidate Sunny Deol, whose real name is Ajay Singh Deol, filed his nomination papers from the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat in Punjab. Deol has declared assets worth over Rs. 81.47 crore. According to the actor's affidavit submitted as a part of his nomination filing process for his maiden fight in elections, his movable assets stand at over Rs 60.46 crore. They include Rs. 25,000 cash in hand, bank deposits of Rs. 26 lakh, investments in mutual funds with a total current market value of about Rs 1.43 crore. As part of his immovable property, the 59-year-old actor has declared that he owns 49.532 acres of agricultural land worth over Rs. 10 crore and non-agricultural land worth over Rs. 8.5 crore. Deol, son of legendary actor Dharmendra, also owns a flat in Mumbai with the current market value of Rs. 2.4 crore. For fiscal 2017-18, he has shown his income at Rs. 63.82 lakh, Rs. 96.29 lakh for 2016-17, Rs. 2.25 crore for 2015-16, Rs. 20.24 lakh for 2014-15 and Rs. 2.92 croe for 2013-14. According to his affidavit, Deol's liabilities are worth Rs 51.80 crore. He holds a diploma in acting and theatre from The Old Rep Theatre from Birmingham, UK. Deol declared there are no criminal cases pending against him and has not been convicted for any criminal offence. The actor's wife has movable assets worth over 5.72 crore while her liabilities stand at over Rs. 1.66 crore. Deol is the second member of the family after his step mother Hema Malini, the BJP candidate renominated from Mathura, to be given ticket by the party in this election. His father Dharmendra was BJP MP from Bikaner in 2004. Hema had declared assets worth over Rs 101 crore. Deol filed his nomination in Gurdaspur after paying obeisance at the Golden Temple and Durgiana Temple in Amritsar in the morning. Deol was accompanied by his brother and actor Bobby Deol. Punjab BJP chief and Rajya Sabha MP Shwait Mailk, Haryana finance minister and party's election in-charge of Punjab Capt Abhimanyu and Akali leader Gurbachan Singh Babehali also accompanied Deol. Punjab will go to polls on May 19. Deol is pitted against sitting MP and Congress candidate Sunil Jakhar, AAP's Peter Masih and PDA's Lal Chand in electoral fight from Gurdaspur seat. Currently, the Gurdaspur constituency is represented by Congress MP Sunil Jakhar, who won the seat in the 2017 bypoll, which was necessitated after the death of Vinod Khanna in April that year. The Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat had been represented by late actor Vinod Khanna for four-times--1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014. Jakhar had defeated BJP candidate Swaran Salaria by a whopping margin of 1,93,219.