Five ministers, 67 members of the Assembly, and 28 members of the Legislative Council have failed to submit a statement of their assets and liabilities for the year 2024-25 to the Karnataka Lokayukta as required under Section 22 (1) of the Karnataka Lokayukta Act, 1984.
The deadline for filing the details was June 30, 2025.
The failure of elected representatives to furnish details of their assets and liabilities can result in the Lokayukta submitting a report to the Karnataka Assembly against them.
Karnataka Food and Civil Supplies Minister K H Muniyappa, Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao, Housing and Minorities Welfare Minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan, Hajj and Municipal Administration Minister Rahim Khan, and Animal Husbandry Minister K Venkatesh are among those who have not filed their assets and liabilities within the prescribed time limit, the Karnataka Lokayukta has stated.
The majority of the 66 MLAs who have not declared their assets and liabilities are from the Congress party.
Among the MLAs who have not declared their assets are the chief minister’s financial advisor, Basavaraj Rayareddy, and the former BJP minister and accused of illegal mining, G Janardhan Reddy.
Former minister for co-operation K N Rajanna, who resigned earlier this year, has also defaulted on filing details of his assets with the Lokayukta.
Planning and Statistics Minister D. Sudhakar, along with two MLAs and one MLC, filed their assets and liabilities after the June 30 deadline.
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“If the public servant concerned fails to comply with Section 22(2) of the Act within two months of the sending of such report, the Lokayukta may publish or cause to be published the names of such defaulting public servants in three newspapers circulating in the State,” the Karnataka Lokayukta has stated.
“Although a copy of the report dated 28/08/2025 submitted to the competent authority has been served on the following public servants, the said public servants have failed to submit a statement of their assets and liabilities for the year 2024-25 within two months of the submission of the report to the competent authority, their names are hereby published in three newspapers under sub-section (2) of section 22 of the Act,” the Lokayukta has stated.