Lalu against free post-retirement housing for Prez

May 02, 2012 16:34

RJD chief Lalu Prasad today opposed the government's policy of giving free accommodation to President and Vice-President after their retirement.

"Candidates for President and Vice-President should give the undertaking that after retirement they would not claim free accommodation anywhere in the country," Lalu told reporters outside Parliament.

"We are following a wrong precedence...The public should not bear the burden of providing accommodation to President and Vice-President after their retirement...Ours is a poor country. We have not been able to provide even slum houses to poor people," he said. Currently, President and Vice-President get free accommodation post retirement. Now there is a demand for providing free accommodation to Speaker also as retirement benefit.

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