Why is Rahul Gandhi moving houses?

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi palms over the keys of 12, Tughlaq Lane bungalow to a CPWD official after vacating the bungalow following his disqualification as a Lok Sabha MP, in New Delhi. File picture/PTI

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi might lastly have a home of his personal and it has a historic connect with his social gathering. The previous Wayanad MP – he was disqualified owing to his conviction within the Modi surname case – has been dwelling together with his mom, Sonia Gandhi, at her 10 Janpath dwelling within the capital.

It’s believed that he was searching for a house for some time now and had been searching for properties and his search has lastly borne fruit. Studies have emerged that the previous Congress chief can be quickly transferring right into a modest three-bedroom home and it belonged to none aside from former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, who spent the final years of her life there.

Right here’s what we find out about Rahul’s new digs and the way it compares to his earlier residence at 12 Tughlaq Lane.

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Rahul’s new tackle

Rahul Gandhi has been reportedly on the hunt for a home within the capital and it has now been mentioned that he might quickly transfer right into a three-BHK residence, unfold over 1,500 sq., overlooking the verdant Humayun’s Tomb in South Delhi’s leafy Nizamuddin East locality.

The home belongs to the household of veteran Congress chief Sheila Dikshit, who stayed there from 1991 to 1998. She once more shifted to the identical flat after 2015 and handed away over there in 2019.

A Enterprise Normal report states that Dikshit purchased the home in 1991 and moved into it shortly after her Kerala gubernatorial stint. By the way, the home is a number of hundred metres from the dargah of Thirteenth-century Sufi saint Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya the place Rahul had provided prayers when his Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Delhi within the final week of December.

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Sandip Dikshit, son of the late Sheila Dikshit, had just lately put out a casual discover of transferring out and this caught the eye of Rahul’s workplace. An Indian Categorical report citing sources mentioned that Rahul has visited the home a number of instances and is eager to take up the residence on hire as Sandeep strikes to a different property in the identical neighbourhood.

An NDTV report added that after receiving a No-Objection Certificates (NOC) from safety businesses, Rahul will transfer into the home, bidding adieu to his mom’s residence at 10 Janpath.

Goodbye, Tughlaq Lane

The probably transfer to Nizamuddin East locality comes after the Congress chief was requested to vacate his spacious and opulent residence at 12 Tughlaq Lane in April.

This got here as he was disqualified from Parliament owing to him being convicted within the Modi surname defamation case in Gujarat. Shortly after he was disqualified, the Lok Sabha Housing Committee had issued a discover to Rahul Gandhi to vacate his bungalow.

Whereas leaving the home he had known as dwelling for twenty years, Rahul Gandhi had mentioned, “Fundamental sach bolne ki kimat chuka raha hu (I’m paying the worth for talking fact).” He additional informed reporters outdoors the bungalow, “I’ve no downside even when it has been snatched away from me. This home was given to me by the individuals of India. I’ll stick with the previous Congress president (Sonia Gandhi) at 10, Janpath for a while after which discover another method.”

The Congress, on the time, had additionally written on Twitter, “This nation is the house of Rahul Gandhi. Rahul who resides within the hearts of individuals.” Rahul whose relation with the general public is unbreakable. Some see in him their son, some brother, some their chief… Rahul belongs to everybody and everybody belongs to Rahul. That is the rationale why as we speak the nation is saying- Rahul ji, my house-your home.”

Rahul was allotted this Kind VIII bungalow after he received the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency within the 2004 basic elections. Kind VIII bungalows are essentially the most sought-after residences allotted to MPs and ministers and are positioned in Delhi’s posh areas like Ashoka Highway, Lodhi Property, Kushak Highway, Canning Lane, Tughlaq Lane and many others.

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Rahul moved into the sprawling bungalow after a non-public ‘Griha Parvesh’ was performed and was attended solely by quick household – mom Sonia Gandhi, sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and brother-in-law Robert Vadra. A News18 report states that the home was achieved up by his sister and is easy and fundamental. It has a health club and few places of work that double up as Gandhi’s work house.

Because the years glided by, 12 Tughlaq Highway turned an influence centre and senior Congress leaders have been usually seen out and in of the residence.

Apparently, Rahul saved a big a part of his residence non-public; conferences and political parleys befell in his workplace or on the sprawling lawns.

However whereas Rahul might have lastly discovered a home, his woes are removed from over. The Gujarat Excessive Court docket refused a plea on staying the conviction within the Modi surname case, which means his disqualification stands. It has been mentioned that he’ll attraction to the Supreme Court docket. However this can be an enormous challenge come 2024 and the Congress goes up towards the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) within the basic elections.

With inputs from businesses