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The Centre has issued notices to the Congress to vacate its 24, Akbar Road office, and 5, Raisina Road premises wherever Youth Congress functions, by March 28.
The announcement was sent by the Estate Department nether the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, informed sources said, adding they were served successful mid-March and the enactment faces eviction, arsenic it is the last announcement sent by the department.
The enactment has been told that its caller office already functions from Indira Bhavan connected Kotla Road and it is not entitled to clasp connected to the premises, the sources said.
The iconic 24 Akbar Road bureau has been the code of the Congress for the past 48 years.
Congress sources said the enactment was inactive formulating its strategy to antagonistic the notices and was keeping options unfastened of moving court.
A two-member Congress delegation led by G.S. Sappal, in-charge of Administration, met Urban Development Minister M.L. Khattar implicit the notices.
The party, according to Congress sources, was paying marketplace rent for its 24, Akbar Road bureau and determination were attempts to get the bungalow allocated to a enactment MP truthful that it could clasp connected to it but it did not materialise.
When it shifted to Indira Bhavan bureau connected Kotla Marg, Congress sources had indicated that the enactment volition not vacate 24, Akbar Road and it volition proceed to location immoderate of its cells arguing that the BJP has not vacated its aged office astatine 11, Ashoka Road, adjacent aft shifting to DDU Marg.
Congress MP Karti Chidambaram said the authorities should use its regularisation uniformly to each and not azygous it retired portion BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said the Congress should shed the “sense of entitlement and unnecessary victimhood card”, recalling the argumentation made nether the UPA authorities that parties would displacement their offices from Lutyens to DDU Marg oregon to Rouse Avenue.
The 24 Akbar Road code has been the Congress office since January 1978 erstwhile Indira Gandhi on with her supporters of the break-away faction of the Congress had huffy it the bureau aft her predetermination nonaccomplishment pursuing the lifting of Emergency.
Before 1978, the Congress had its office connected 7, Jantar Mantar Road and 5, Rajendra Prasad Road. The divided successful 1969 led to losing the bureau successful Jantar Mantar Road and it had moved to 5, Rajendra Prasad Road.
