Rekha leaves bungalow to Cong

March 28, 2016 11:19

The Congress feared losing itsGhar but Rekha came to its rescue by giving her Ijaazat.When the Rajya Sabha house committee allotted 15 Gurdwara Rakabganj Road in Lutyens Delhi to the actress-turned-MP last week, the Congress was worried.

The party had been using the bungalow for a decade as a war room where its brains trusts chalked out electoral strategies, from Lok Sabha elections to last year's Bihar polls. Currently, it houses the office of the Congress's new adviser, Prashant Kishor.

"We approached Rekhaji and she agreed to allow the party to continue to use it," Ananda Bhaskar Rapolu, Congress Rajya Sabha member from Telangana, toldThe Telegraph. Read more

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