Amravati: President Pratibha Patil’s son and Congress MLA Raosaheb Shekhawat is expected to reply on Tuesday to the notice issued in connection with the seizure of Rs 1 crore unaccounted cash from Amravati, ahead of the recently-concluded civic polls.

The notices were issued by District Collector Rahul Mahiwal to Shekhawat as well as Minister of State Rajendra Mulak, MPCC general secretary Ganesh Patil, Amravati Congress chief Vasantrao Saurkar and Mulak’s PA Ashish Bodhankar.

Following the seizure of cash that was being transported in Amravati from Nagpur by two persons in a car last Sunday, the Election Commission had directed the District Collector and Municipal Commissioner to file a report about the incident.

Denying allegations that the seized cash was unaccounted, Shekhawat had claimed that the money was meant for distribution among financially weak candidates for the local civic polls.

“I had sought funds from the state Congress Committee for distributing them among 87 party candidates as most of them are women and poor. Accordingly, Rs 1 crore was sent to me which was to be distributed at Rs 1 lakh per candidate and the rest (of the money) was meant for the district Congress committee,” Shekhawat had said.