Raghav Chadha bungalow row: Will fight stay order, says House panel head
Speaking to The Indian Express, Ramesh said: “We will fight to have the stay order vacated and go to a higher court if need be. The reason is that he is not entitled to a Type-VII bungalow and this was informed to him in the cancellation notice.”
First-time MPs are entitled to a Type-V bungalow or flat, while MPs who are former MLAs are entitled to a Type-VI, as per the Rajya Sabha Members’ Handbook. However, the House Committee chairperson can make exceptions, the handbook says. Chadha was in his first-term as an MLA in the Delhi Assembly when he contested and won the Rajya Sabha polls from Punjab in 2022, becoming a first-time MP.
As per the court order granting him the stay, the Rajya Sabha secretariat had first allotted Chadha a Type-VI house in July 2022 and then after he made a representation to the Rajya Sabha chairman, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, a Type-VII bungalow was allotted in lieu in September. In March this year, the secretariat sent a letter to the first-time MP cancelling the allotment of the bungalow to him. This prompted Chadha to move court and get a stay on April 18 against being removed from the bungalow, AB-5, Pandara Road. Ramesh’s term as House Committee chairman started on November 2, 2022, while the previous chairman, O P Mathur, left office in July 2022.
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