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Thursday, March 18, 1999

Anand Mohan told to vacate house he forced himself into

SANJIV SINHA  
NEW DELHI, MARCH 17: In an unprecedented decision, Lok Sabha Speaker G M C Balayogi has asked Rashtriya Janata Party (RJP) MP Anand Mohan to immediately vacate the government house (18, Rakabganj Road) which he is alleged to have forcibly occupied a few months ago. The bungalow is said to have been originally allotted to Lok Sabha MP Congressman P R Kyndiah.This is probably the first time that the Speaker of the Lok Sabha has had to intervene against an MP accused of forcibly barging into a government bungalow. The Speaker's decision was conveyed to the Lok Sabha House Committee's office last week with instructions that the MP be asked to move out immediately.

Sources in the Lok Sabha House Committee said that the Speaker had taken the view that Anand Mohan, a second time MP from Sheohar in Bihar, should be asked to vacate the house he occupied without allotment and then be given alternate accommodation elsewhere. Apart from 18-Rakabganj Road (a Type VII bungalow usually reserved for ministers or seniorMPs), Mohan is also in possession of twin flats in North Avenue (147 and 149).

Lok Sabha House Committee chairman Girdhari Lal Bhargava while confirming to The Indian Express the Speaker's decision on Anand Mohan's house said that necessary orders would be issued in the next few days.

He said that while the Speaker was of the view that the house should be vacated, he (Bhargava) had recommended that Anand Mohan's occupation be regularised as had been done in the case of two other MPs, Suryakanta Patil and Rani Narah, who are also alleged to have forcibly occupied government houses.

Anand Mohan was not available for comment despite repeated attempts to contact him.

Congress MP Suryakanta Patil had also forcibly occupied 14-Bishambar Das Marg, another Type VII bungalow. Ironically, Bhargava (a fourth time BJP MP from Jaipur) had kept the bungalow for himself but Patil allegedly moved into the house without any allotment.

If the Committee is to be believed, Patil had been moving from house to house,forcibly occupying 22-Gurudwara Rakabganj Road and then 34-Gurudwara Rakabganj Road. She finally settled for 14-Bishambar Das Marg, the allotment of which was reportedly regularised later. The other MP, Rani Narah, a first time MP from Assam, is alleged to have occupied twin flats in South Avenue (47 and 49), originally allotted to BJP MP Chandresh Patel. Only third time MPs are eligible for allotment to twin flats. Bhargava says that the matter can best be resolved by regularising Anand Mohan's allotment as had been done in Patil and Narah's case.

Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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