Realty check for Rudy?

September 11, 2013 11:33

Our Delhi correspondent reports that buzz in the capital has it that Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has asked the LS Secretariat to start legal proceedings over alleged illegal constructions in the Constitution Club, which is part of the estate of the Parliament and is located near Parliament House.

However, the club's president, the BJP's Rajiv Pratap Rudy, is said to be unhappy over it; insiders say that thanks to him the club has got a facelift as well as a gym and facilities similar to that of a five-star hotel.

JP Aggarwal, Congress MP, has already raised a banner of revolt by claiming that Rudy had made it a "BJP property". Watch this space for further developments.

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