NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Accommodation (CCA) will be very likely to approve the proposition allowing Congress leader and former president of opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, to keep his official bungalow until September-end.
Azad’s expression as the leader of opposition in the Upper House finished in February this year.
Sources said according to the standard, he had been permitted to remain in the bungalow until March-end.
They included Azad had approached the Rajya Sabha secretariat hunting retention of those 5, South Avenue Lane home till September.
Sources said because the lodging was below the overall pool controlled by the home metropolitan affairs ministry, his first petition was forwarded to the ministry to thought.
“Considering that the standards do not allow such expansion, just the CCA is capable to provide any such acceptance,” said a source.
The CCA can be very likely to reevaluate retention and ex-facto blessings for allotment of government lodging to a couple heads of government bodies, both former and serving bureaucrats and other workers.
A career politician, Azad had powerful innings in his home state of Jammu and Kashmir and in the Centre.
Leaders across celebrations have enjoyed his qualities.
However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s admiration of Azad at the Rajya Sabha in his final day had captured the country’s interest.
Recalling Azad’s support following a terror strike in 2007 from the valley,” Modi had stated that the veteran Congress leader had been the very first person to phone him to notify him regarding the episode.
“I won’t ever forget Shri Azad’s attempts and Pranab Mukherjee’s attempts when individuals from Gujarat were stuck in Kashmir because of a terror strike.
This night…
Ghulam Nabi phoned me…
He seemed concerned like individuals are worried about their own relatives.
That’s the sort of feeling that he revealed,” Modi had remembered, fighting rips.
Azad returned the compliments stating that the PM maintained private ties apart from politics.
“We sparred at the House, we’d long discussions, but you never allow it to influence private bonds,” he’d said.