New Delhi, December 30: The Election Commission has directed the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to re-evaluate chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat’s immovable assets, which he declared by in the nomination papers for the assembly elections in February this year.
The poll panel’s directive follows a complaint by former BJP member Raghunath Singh Negi, who accused Rawat of providing “false information, concealment and misrepresentation of actual age, pending litigation and valuation of immovable properties” in the election papers. In his complaint on October 30, Negi alleged that the chief minister had given wrong information before assembly elections in 2007 and 2012 as well as a bypoll in 2014 that he lost.