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Income Tax Department , India have refused to divulge information on the IT Returns of Sharad Pawar,Maneka Gandhi, Lallu Prasad Yadav, all politicians, the first the Union Minister for Agriculture the second, Opposition leader and co sister-in-law of Sonia Gandhi (sister of late Rajiv Gandhi), the last former Union Minister for Railways.

They have also refused information on Businessman Naveen Jindal, es cricketer Navjot Singh Sidu and Politician and 20 more MLAs.

The RTI application elicited this information.

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The prominent names in the list of 22 MPs and 20 MLAs whose I-T returns were asked for under RTI are Sharad Pawar, Naveen Jindal, Maneka Gandhi, Sachin Pilot, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Beni Prasad Verma, Ajit Singh and Lalu Prasad Yadav.

"Bairwal has asked for the following information in his RTI application:

1. Whether the MPs/MLAs who fall in your jurisdiction have filed their I-T returns for all the five years (2004-2009)

2. Please provide the years for which these MPs have not filed their returns

3. Please provide details of the -IT return & assessment orders for all the years for whichthey have filed.

Apart from the RTI application, Bairwal also separately requested all Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha MPs to disclose their I-T returns in larger public interest. Says Bairwal, “Some of these MPs sent us their I-T Returns and insisted that we make them public on our website whereas others uploaded them on their own website. We also came across some MPs and MLAs who have already submitted their I-T returns along with the respective chief minister's office and the prime minister's office.’’ In all, 28 of them including Anu Aga and Ambika Soni have revealed their I-T returns – (see box below).