The Centre has got the water and power supply to the houses of defiant MPs disconnected to ensure compliance.
NDMC chairperson Jalaj Shrivastava, however, qualified his statement by saying that “we don’t know how many of these MPs have already vacated their premises”.
He said sometimes the MPs also write to the authorities saying they are vacating the premises and the power and water supply should be cut so that they are not billed for the intervening period till someone occupies the premises. “Whoever comes next does not want to pay any arrears, which remain a responsibility of the outgoing MP.”
The NDMC has also submitted its action taken report to the Lok Sabha Housing Committee.
Among the MPs whose properties have been acted include former Union Minister and Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singh at whose 12 Tughlaq Lane residence his supporters had physically stopped a combined team of Directorate of Estates and the Delhi Police from taking possession of the premises. Other well-known MPs whose premises have been acted against are former Minister of State Jitendra Singh, cricketer-turned-politician Mohammad Azharuddin and former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar’s son Neeraj Shekhar of the Samajwadi Party.
