The affidavit filed on Saturday by BJP chief Amit Shah while submitting his nomination papers for the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat shows that his assets have grown over three times in the last seven years.

Movable and immovable properties of Mr. Shah and his wife Sonalben stood at ₹38.81 crore, up from ₹11.79 crore in 2012. They included inherited property, both movable and immovable, of ₹23.45 crore, the affidavit states.

While Mr. Shah had ₹20,633 cash in hand at the time of filing the papers, his wife possessed ₹72,578. Mr. Shah and his wife had ₹27.80 lakh in several savings accounts, and fixed deposits of ₹9.80 lakh. The two have a cumulative income of ₹2.84 crore as per their latest Income Tax Returns (ITR). The affidavit mentions his sources of income as salary received as Rajya Sabha MP, rent on properties and income from agricultural activity.

Mr. Shah has mentioned that he and his wife’s annual incomes, as per the ITR of 2017-18, stood at ₹2.84 crore, which comprised ₹53.90 lakh for Mr. Shah and ₹2.30 crore for Sonalben. The income of Mr. Shah’s wife more than doubled in a year as her 2016-17 ITR placed her annual income at ₹1.05 crore.

They do not own a car. Mr. Shah declared that though four criminal cases were pending against him, he had not been convicted in any of them.