Delhi CM says no to duplex flats, Sheila, aides stay on in luxury
6 Jan 2014 4:31 AM IST
‘My well-wishers and supporters asked me to not move in those duplex flats. I received several phone calls and messages with a request not to move in the flats. I have asked the officers to search a smaller flat for me. I don’t want to dash the feelings of the people,’ he said. Meanwhile, even after being rejected by the people, former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit and her cabinet ministers are still residing in the sprawling bungalows.
Dikshit, continues to stay at her bungalow at 3, Motital Nehru Place while her cabinet colleague and former education and urban development minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, who is currently Delhi Congress president, retains his ministerial bungalow at 9, Sham Nath Marg. This is the same bungalow where former Delhi chief minister Sahib Singh Verma used to stay between 1996 and 1998. Former minister of food and civil supplies Haroon Yusuf also has a sprawling bungalow at 208, Rouse Avenue, Deen Dayal Upadhayay Marg. Lovely and Yusuf are currently MLAs from Gandhi Nagar and Ballimaran assembly seats respectively.
Two ministers who lost their seats in the recently concluded Delhi assembly election also get government bungalows. Former minister Kiran Walia lost the election from Malviya Nagar to AAP’s Shomnath Bharti. But she still occupies a government bungalow at 1, Satya Sadan, Satya Marg, Chanakayapuri. So does her neighbour and cabinet colleague Ramakant Goswami who lost the election from Karolbagh to BJP’s R P Singh.
Interestingly, only Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit and Kiran Walia had mentioned their official bungalows as their place of residence in the election affidavit filed before the election commission.
The rest did not mention their bungalows where they reside and only talked about the houses they have in their respective constituencies. Only PWD minister Raj Kumar Chauhan had mentioned two addresses in his affidavit- one at Mangolpuri and second one at Bhera enclave, outer ring road.
Dikshit, continues to stay at her bungalow at 3, Motital Nehru Place while her cabinet colleague and former education and urban development minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, who is currently Delhi Congress president, retains his ministerial bungalow at 9, Sham Nath Marg. This is the same bungalow where former Delhi chief minister Sahib Singh Verma used to stay between 1996 and 1998. Former minister of food and civil supplies Haroon Yusuf also has a sprawling bungalow at 208, Rouse Avenue, Deen Dayal Upadhayay Marg. Lovely and Yusuf are currently MLAs from Gandhi Nagar and Ballimaran assembly seats respectively.
Two ministers who lost their seats in the recently concluded Delhi assembly election also get government bungalows. Former minister Kiran Walia lost the election from Malviya Nagar to AAP’s Shomnath Bharti. But she still occupies a government bungalow at 1, Satya Sadan, Satya Marg, Chanakayapuri. So does her neighbour and cabinet colleague Ramakant Goswami who lost the election from Karolbagh to BJP’s R P Singh.
Interestingly, only Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit and Kiran Walia had mentioned their official bungalows as their place of residence in the election affidavit filed before the election commission.
The rest did not mention their bungalows where they reside and only talked about the houses they have in their respective constituencies. Only PWD minister Raj Kumar Chauhan had mentioned two addresses in his affidavit- one at Mangolpuri and second one at Bhera enclave, outer ring road.
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