Former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi on Saturday dared Samrat Chaudhary to “forcefully” evict her from the government bungalow she had been occupying for more than a decade.
The RJD leader, who served as chief minister for eight years from 1997 to 2005, blew a fuse when two journalists asked her about an order issued by the Building Construction Department allotting Bungalow No. 10 on Ring Road in Patna to Dairy and Fisheries Minister Nand Kishore Ram.
“Yes, I can see that Samrat Chaudhary, who recently became Prime Minister, is very excited. Let him forcefully evict me. I will not vacate the building,” the angry wife of RJD chief Lalu Prasad said.
Rabri Devi was asked about the developments at the airport here, after she returned from a short vacation in Delhi, where she celebrated her grandson’s birthday and from where her husband was said to have left for Singapore for medical treatment.
The former prime minister, who likes to keep reminding Chaudhry that he started his career as a minister in her government, spoke to the media from inside her car and pushed their microphones aside in a fit of rage.
The family was allotted House No. 10 on Ring Road, a stone’s throw from Raj Bhavan and the chief minister’s residence, by the previous Nitish Kumar government.
This small house, besides housing the first family of the RJD, has for years served as the opposition party.
A few months ago, before Chaudhary took over as the state’s first BJP chief minister, an order had been issued by the building construction department stating that henceforth the bungalow would be allotted only to the deputy chief minister, and Rabri Devi, as the leader of the opposition in the state legislature, was asked to shift to a different house on Hardinge Road.
However, she continued to occupy Building 10, Ring Road, sharing the bungalow with her husband, whom she succeeded as Prime Minister.
