New Delhi:
Chirag Paswan, Lok Sabha MP and son of former Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, is being evicted from the bungalow allotted to his late father, sources said. The government has sent a team to the premises at 12 Janpath Road and Chirag Paswan’s belongings are being removed.
The 12 Janpath Road bungalow, two doors down from Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s residence, is earmarked for the use of Union ministers. Chirag Paswan was asked to vacate the premises last year – almost a year after the death of after the death of Ram Vilas Paswan.
The former food minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet had died in October 2020, days after a heart surgery.
The house has been the official address of the Lok Janshakti Party in Delhi and was used for all the official events and organizational meetings of the party.
After his death, the party had illegally converted the bungalow to a memorial, installing his statue in the lawn. In 2000, the Centre had banned conversion of Lutyens’ bungalows into memorials.
