Told to vacate bungalow, Ajit cries foul

Told to vacate bungalow, Ajit cries foul

                                                                                   

RLD chief Ajit Singh on Friday attacked the Government for rejecting his demand for converting the bungalow occupied by him into a memorial to his father, former Prime Minister Charan Singh, and blamed it for protests over the issue.

"There is a memorial in the name of Lai Bahadur Shastri. The residence in which late Babu Jagj ivan Ram used to live was converted into his memorial three to six months back. A memorial alsocame up in the name of Kanshi Ram. So what is the logic of saying this." he said. He was replying to a question as to how can his demand be met when Union Cabinet of then NDA in 2000 itself had cleared a pro-posal banning conversion of official bungalows of MPs into memorials.

Hardening his stand on the issue of eviction of Ajit Singh. Union Minister Vctikaiah Naidu on Frida> said Government was bound by rules and questioned why the RLD leader or Congress did not convert the house into memorial forCharan Singh when they were in power.

The Urban Development Minister insisted that there was no political vendetta involved in the decision to evict Ajit Singh from Government residence. With Ajit Singh's supporters clashing with police in Gaziabad on Thursday when diey were stopped from cutting water supply to Delhi. Naidu made ii clear that such "threats" were unacceptable and will find little support among people. "No question of discourteous behaviour at all. Idonot believe and my Government does not believe in political vendetta. There is no politics involved in eviction 1 am not against personally anybody."

"I am governed by rules and regulations and procedures which were well established and laid before we assumed power." ihe minister said on ihe comroversy over move to evict RLD leader Ajii Singh, who wants it to be converted into a memorial for his father, a demand rejected by

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