{"id":286859,"date":"2018-05-18T13:10:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T07:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286859"},"modified":"2018-05-18T13:10:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T07:40:59","slug":"vacate-official-bungalows-up-govt-to-6-ex-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/vacate-official-bungalows-up-govt-to-6-ex-cms\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacate official bungalows: UP govt to 6 ex-CMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mulayam-house-up.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-286865 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mulayam-house-up-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" data-id=\"286865\" \/><\/a>In compliance with the Supreme Court orders, the\u00a0Uttar Pradesh government has asked six former CMs to vacate government bungalows within 15 days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The notices were sent by the Estate Department served to Union home minister Rajnath Singh, Rajasthan governor Kalyan Singh, SP patriarch\u00a0Mulayam Singh Yadav, BSP chief\u00a0Mayawati, SP president\u00a0Akhilesh Yadav, and senior\u00a0Congress\u00a0leader ND Tewari.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe former CMs have been asked to vacate the government accommodation within 15 days,\u201d said UP estate officer Yogesh Shukla.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this month, the Supreme Court has quashed Uttar Pradesh government&#8217;s law which granted permanent residential accommodation to former chief ministers of the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SC in its May 7 ruling had observed: \u201cWhether retention of official accommodation by the functionaries mentioned in Section 4(3) of the 1981Act after they had demitted office violate the equality clause guaranteed by Article 14 of the Constitution of India?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The apex court said that Section 4(3) of Uttar Pradesh ministers (salaries, allowances and miscellaneous provisions) Act, 2016 was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In compliance with the Supreme Court orders, the\u00a0Uttar Pradesh government has asked six former CMs to vacate government bungalows within 15 days. The notices were sent by the Estate Department served to Union home minister Rajnath Singh, Rajasthan governor Kalyan Singh, SP patriarch\u00a0Mulayam Singh Yadav, BSP chief\u00a0Mayawati, SP president\u00a0Akhilesh Yadav, and senior\u00a0Congress\u00a0leader ND Tewari. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":286865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39],"tags":[1611,1612,1613,1614,1615,1616,1617,134,1618,1619,283,1620],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}