{"id":24163,"date":"2019-09-15T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T09:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=24163"},"modified":"2019-09-15T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T09:14:52","slug":"82-ex-mps-still-to-vacate-official-bungalows-despite-lok-sabha-panel-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=24163","title":{"rendered":"82 ex-MPs still to vacate official bungalows despite Lok Sabha panel warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: white; margin: 0in -.2in 12.0pt -.2in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636; background: white;\">Over 80 former MPs are yet to vacate their official bungalows in Lutyens&#8217; Delhi despite a stern warning by a Lok Sabha panel, sources said.They said the government is contemplating to take action against these ex-MPs under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act for their speedy eviction.On August 19, the Lok Sabha Housing Committee headed by C R Patil had ordered around 200 ex-MPs, who did not vacate their bungalows, to give up the facility within a week and disconnect their power, water and cooking gas connections within three days.&#8221;Since the committee&#8217;s order, most of the ex-MPs have vacated their official bungalows. But, 82 former MPs are, however, yet to vacate their bungalows as per a recent list,&#8221; the sources told DIN.Sources in the Lok Sabha Housing Committee said this is not acceptable and that strict action will be taken against such former MPs.&#8221;It was the panel&#8217;s decision to ask ex-MPs to vacate their official residences. Now, if some of them have not done so, it is not acceptable. Strict action will be taken against them,&#8221; the sources in the committee said.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #383636;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"background: white;\">Notices are being sent to these former Members of Parliament, asking them to vacate their bungalows which had been allotted to them in 2014, another source said.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background: white;\">&#8220;If they (ex-MPs) do not give up official bungalows, action may be taken against them under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act.&#8221;Once the eviction order is passed, power, water and cooking gas connections will be snapped,&#8221; the source added.According to rules, former MPs have to vacate their respective bungalows within one month of dissolution of the previous Lok Sabha.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background: white;\">President Ram Nath Kovind had on May 25 dissolved the 16th Lok Sabha with immediate effect on the recommendation of the Union Cabinet after the Modi government was formed for a second term.A few newly-elected MPs, who won in the Lok Sabha election earlier this year, have been staying at temporary accommodation as some ex-MPs have not vacated official bungalows<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 80 former MPs are yet to vacate their official bungalows in Lutyens&#8217; Delhi despite a stern warning by a Lok Sabha panel, sources said.They said the government is contemplating to take action against these ex-MPs under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act for their speedy eviction.On August 19, the Lok Sabha Housing Committee headed by C R Patil had ordered around 200 ex-MPs, who did not vacate their bungalows, to give up the facility within a week and disconnect their power, water and cooking gas connections within&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24169,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24163\/revisions\/24169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}