MPs overstaying in their Bunglows.

Renuka, Paswan, 15 others cling on to Lutyens houses
Prashant Pandey

New Delhi

Aug. 21: The list of former ministers and MPs who continue to unauthorisedly occupy their bungalows, which are part of the general pool, in the Lutyens Bungalow Zone (LBZ) has come down from 36 to 17 in a month. However, some of the leaders, like former minister of state for women and child development Renuka Chowdhury, former minister Ram Vilas Paswan and Mr Jagdish Tytler continue to be in unauthorised occupation of their bungalows despite their cases having been referred to the litigation division of the ministry of urban development (MoUD).

The directorate of estates, under the MoUD, provided the information in reply to a petition under the RTI Act by Subhash Chandra Agarwal. The figures are till August 10.

Having lost the parliamentary elections from her constituency, Khammam, earlier this year, Ms Chowdhury, who occupies 76, Lodhi Estate, was supposed to have vacated her bungalow. However, she has continued to stay with sources close to her claiming she would get a Rajya Sabha berth.

Mr Paswan, who occupies 12, Janpath, also seems to be in a mood to stay on, though his attempts to get the accommodation allotted in the name of his party has failed.

The other leaders who have not vacated their bungalows are Saleem Sherwani, Vinod Khanna, Charanjit Singh Atwal, S.N. Jatiya, Subhash Maharia, Yerran Naidu, Shankarsinh Vaghela, P.R. Das Munshi, Akhilesh Prasad Singh, Taslimuddin, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Suryakanta Patil, Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan and Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav.

In the case of former minister Kanshi Ram Rana, there seems to have been some confusion. Though his name appeared in the list of 36 last month, he claimed that he had already vacated his bungalow. But in its reply the directorate of estates stated it had not received any "vacation report". The matter is still under consideration with the ministry.

Some of the other leaders who have vacated their bungalows include the defence minister in the NDA regime, Mr George Fernandes, who is now the JD(U) Rajya Sabha candidate from Bihar. The others who vacated were A. Narendra, L. Ganeshan, Basangouda R. Patil, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Jual Oram, Santosh Gangwar, Vallabh Bhai Kathiriya, S.S. Badal, V. Radhika Selvi, Naranbhai Rathwa, Raghunath Jha, Kanti Singh, Mahavir Prasad, Santosh Mohan Dev, Shakeel Ahmed and P.R. Kyndiah.

Just as a baby is reluctant to move out of the safety of its mother's womb, these shameless MPs do not vacate their houses after losing elections.
The baby normally moves out on its own or is coaxed out with the midwife of doctor's help.
If it overstays, you have stillbirth abd the baby dies.
I suppose our MPs should also be coaxed out with police help, we cannot hope that they would die of stillbirth.
They are the people who make laws and expect the rest of India to obey those laws when they themselves flout them.
If any party is palnning to send these MPs to the Rajya Sabha, they should give it in writing and a time limit should be fixed