Mulayam, Akhilesh vacate govt bungalows
May 31, 2018  18:52
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Following the Supreme Court's order, former Uttar Pradesh chief ministers Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav today vacated their official residences allotted by the Uttar Pradesh government.

The top court had on May 7 held that former chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh cannot retain government accommodation after demitting office and said that a chief minister was at par with a common man once his or her term ends.

However, the father-son die on May 28 moved the Supreme Court seeking "appropriate time" for vacating their official residences.

The two former chief ministers had earlier moved the UP government's estate department seeking two years time to vacate their official residences and shifting to their private accommodations in Lucknow.

Shortly after this verdict, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Rajasthan governor Kalyan Singh, who were chief ministers earlier, had informed the estate department that they will vacate the government bungalows.

Rajnath Singh and Kalyan Singh are among the six former chief ministers who have been asked by the estate department to vacate the bungalows within 15 days in pursuance of the Supreme Courts order.

However, former UP chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati recently put up a signboard outside her official accommodation in Lucknow announcing that it was a memorial named after the party founder late Kanshi Ram.
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