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Government residence of Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta at Raj Niwas Road. This will be renovated.
Repair and decoration work will soon start in Delhi Chief Minister’s Rekha Gupta’s new government bungalow (Bungalow No. 1, Raj Niwas Road). This bungalow was first being used as the office of the Lieutenant Governor Secretariat. Now it will be made fit for the Chief Minister and his family.
The bungalow will have 24 air conditioners, 5 smart TVs (four 55 inches and one 65 in), 3 big chandeliers, more than 80 wings. The kitchen will facilitate new machines such as gas hob, electric chimney, microwave, toast grill, washing machine, dishwasher, 50 liters of RO water plant.
The total budget of the first phase of renovation is 60 lakh rupees. Air conditioning alone will cost more than Rs 11 lakh and a budget of Rs 6 lakh has been kept on lights, chandelis.
Bungalow number 1 is a type VII housing, including 4 bedrooms, drawing rooms, visitors halls, servants room, kitchen, lawn and backyard.
Rekha Gupta was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Delhi on 20 February this year. She has been living in her private bungalow since then.
The second bungalow will be a camp office According to PWD, Bungalow No. 2 will be made the ‘camp office’ of the Chief Minister, where the general public will be met. A way will also be made to connect both bungalows. Chief Minister Rekha Gupta is currently living in her private house in Shalimar Bagh.
Rekha Gupta described the old bungalow as a symbol of corruption CM Rekha Gupta made it clear before the election that she would not take the residence of former Chief Minister Kejriwal (6 Flagstaff Road), which she had called a symbol of corruption. About 33.66 crore rupees were spent on that bungalow, which the BJP called Sheesh Mahal.
Order to investigate renovation in former CM Kejriwal bungalow
Before the assembly elections in Delhi, BJP released a video of Kejriwal’s bungalow.
On February 13, the central government ordered an inquiry into the renovation in the bungalow at 6 Flag Staff Road of former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. However, no report has been revealed yet.
The BJP said that several rules were broken in the construction of a bungalow made in 40 thousand square yards (8 acres). More than Rs 45 crore was spent in its renovation. That is why it should be called Sheeshamahal. Kejriwal lived here from 2015 to 2024.
Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva had complained to the Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena that Kejriwal’s bungalow was made incorrectly by mixing 4 government properties. This process should be canceled. BJP’s Chief Minister will not stay in this bungalow after the oath.
CBI investigated, spent 44.78 crores For the first time in May 2023, the case of ‘Sheeshmahal’ came to light. When Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena wrote a letter to CBI Director Praveen Sood and assigned the investigation of the CM House Renovation case.
In September 2023, the CBI filed a report in the case. It was alleged that former Delhi CM Kejriwal has spent about 45 crore rupees at CM residence during the Kovid period. This money was taken from the government treasury.