Rahul Gandhi gets back bungalow in Lutyens' Delhi
A day after being reinstated as a Lok Sabha MP, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was re-allotted his bungalow in Delhi on Tuesday. Reports said the Lok Sabha's House Committee gave Gandhi his old bungalow at 12, Tughlaq Lane. When media persons asked him about being re-allotted the bungalow, he said, "Mera ghar poora Hindustan hai (All of India is my home)."
Why does this story matter?
Gandhi's Lok Sabha membership was restored on Monday after the Supreme Court stayed his conviction in the criminal defamation case on Friday. He was disqualified in March after being sentenced by a Surat court to two years' imprisonment over his 2019 remark, "How come all the thieves have Modi surname?" Gandhi vacated the bungalow in April following his disqualification, moving into Sonia Gandhi's residence.
Gandhi was first allotted bungalow in 2004
Gandhi was first allotted the bungalow at 12, Tughlaq Lane, after he won from Uttar Pradesh's Amethi in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. After vacating the bungalow, he said, "The people of Hindustan gave me this house for 19 years. I want to thank them. There is a price for speaking the truth these days. Whatever the cost, I will pay it."
Gandhi set to travel to Wayanad over weekend
In July, some reports said Gandhi was likely to shift to the house of Delhi's former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at B2 Nizamuddin East in South Delhi district, where Dikshit's son and Congress MP, Sandeep Dikshit, currently lives. Meanwhile, Gandhi is reportedly set to travel over this weekend to Kerala's Wayanad, his constituency since the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
About the case against Gandhi
Gandhi's remark that landed him in trouble came during the campaigning for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Later, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Gujarat MLA Purnesh Modi filed a complaint against Gandhi for allegedly defaming the "entire Modi community." After a Surat court gave him the maximum sentence in the case, the Congress accused the ruling BJP of conspiring to remove Gandhi from Parliament.
