NEW DELHI: It’s a major setback to the former chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh! In a major development, the Supreme Court of India on Monday said that former CMs are not entitled to government accommodation.”Any such possession of government accommodation should be vacated within 2 months,” the Supreme Court ordered.Now, the SC has ordered 6 ex-CMs of UP including Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati to vacate the government bungalows within 2 months.

These 6 former CMs also include Rajnath Singh, Kalyan Singh, ND Tiwari and Ram Naresh Yadav. A bench headed by Justice Anil R Dave, which pronounced its verdict on a 2004 plea, said that any such government accommodation should be vacated within two to three months.”They don’t have the right to occupy government accommodation for lifetime,” the bench also comprising justices U U Lalit and L Nageswara Rao said.

The judgment came on a plea filed by a UP-based NGO Lok Prahari, which had sought a direction against allotment of government bungalows to ex-CMs and other “non-eligible” organisations.The NGO had alleged that despite the direction of Allahabad High Court, the UP government had framed ex-Chief Minister’s Residence Allotment Rules, 1997 (non-statutory) for allotting bungalows to successive ex-chief ministers.
The NGO had also contended that the rules framed in 1997 for allotment of government bungalows to ex-chief ministers were unconstitutional and illegal, and those occupying them were allegedly unauthorised occupants under the purview of the UP Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act.
The petitioner also said that retention of government accommodation by chief ministers after demitting office was against the Provisions of UP Ministers (Salaries/allowances and other facilities) Act.
The judgment on the plea was reserved on November 27, 2014.

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