Ex-CMs have to vacate their bungalows within two months.
All the former Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh will have to vacant their palatial government bungalows within two months as the Yogi Adityanath government has decided to issue notices to comply with the Supreme Court order quashing law passed by erstwhile Akhilesh Yadav government overruling earlier order of the apex court.
Estate Officer Yogesh Kumar Shukla said that the department will comply with the Supreme Court order. “We are awaiting copy of the Supreme Court order to begin the process for its compliance,” said Shukla.
Once the order is received, the Estate Department is likely to issue notices to Mulayam Singh Yadav, Kalyan Singh Yadav, N.D. Tiwari, Mayawati, Rajnah Singh, and Akhilesh Yadav for vacating their government accommodation within the apex court deadline of two months.
The department will also realise heft rent from the former Chief Ministers as directed by the Supreme Court. Earlier, the department had issued notices to over 100 journalists illegally occupying government accommodations despite owning their own houses in Lucknow.
Spread across few acres of land, Mulayam Singh Yadav is occupying a palatial bungalow at 5 Vikramditya Marg while his son is living in another palatial house adjacent to his father at 4, Vikramaditya Marg. The new house was constructed when Akhilesh Yadav was the Chief Minister. Over Rs 20 crores were spent on the construction and interiors of the new house with Italian marbles.
Even after enacting a new law to save bungalows of his father and other ex-Chief Ministers, Akhilesh cleverly got the 4 Vikramaditya Marg bungalow allotted to Janeshwar Mishra Trust when he was the Chief Minister to escape any new order from the Supreme Court. It would be interesting to watch how Yogi Adityanath government gets Yadav’s bungalow vacated in the light of the apex court order.
The same is the case Mayawati’s bungalow number 13, Mall Avenue. The palatial house was built after demolishing at least two more adjacent houses for the BSP Supremo. Former Chief Minister Narain Dutt Tiwari and Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh are occupying bungalows Number 1 and 2 at posh Mall Avenue respectively while Rajnath Singh continue to possess 4, Kalidas Marg residence next to the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s official residence.
Earlier, the Allahabad High Court had also passed a similar order in 1997 forcing ex-Chief Ministers V.P. Singh, Kamlapati Tripathi, H.M. Bahuguna and Sripati Mishra to vacate their bungalows in posh localities. But then Chief Minister Mayawai had framed Ex-Chief Ministers’ Residence Allotment Rules 1997 to continue with the tradition of allotting of huge bungalows to former Chief Ministers.
But the Supreme Court verdict on Monday on the petition of Lok Prahari has left no choice with these former Chief Ministers than to vacate their government accommodations.
“The Supreme Court order will go a long way in checking their splurge on the tax payers’ money. It will also help in fixing accountability of white-collared who indulge in luxuries at public expenses,” reacted S.N. Shukla, a retired Civil Servant and General Secretary of Lok Prahari, who argued the case on his own.
After retirement, Shukla started practice in the High Court and the Supreme Court mainly taking up issues of public interest.
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