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Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary has spoken out, for the archetypal time, astir the enactment implicit the bungalow occupied by Rashtriya Janata Dal person Rabri Devi. Without naming the erstwhile Chief Minister, helium said that she would person to vacate the bungalow astatine immoderate cost.
Addressing a nationalist gathering during the Sahyog Camp successful Muzaffarpur connected Tuesday (June 2, 2026), Mr. Choudhary asserted that it was not a monarchy successful which the parent wanted 1 house, and the lad desired another.
On May 29, 2026, the Building Construction Department (BCD) issued a 2nd announcement to Ms. Devi to vacate the 10, Circular Road bungalow, which had been allotted to Dairy and Fisheries Minister Nand Kishor Ram.
On May 31, 2026, BCD gave her a 15-day ultimatum to vacate the bungalow, which is located adjacent to 1, Anne Marg, present renamed arsenic Lok Sevak Awas, the authoritative residence of the Chief Minister. BCD has allotted 39, Harding Road bungalow to Ms. Devi, who has refused to vacate her existent residence and challenged the State authorities to evict her utilizing constabulary force.
“Some radical deliberation their location volition beryllium vacated. It volition decidedly beryllium vacated. No 1 connected this world tin halt it. No surviving psyche tin halt it,” the Chief Minister said.
Mr. Choudhary, who archetypal attended the Sahyog Camp successful Sheikhpura, took a excavation astatine the Lalu Prasad family. He asserted that a bungalow was nary one’s ancestral entitlement.
“People person go precise attached to bungalows. The lad wants a abstracted house, and the parent wants a abstracted house. Some radical are lone acrophobic with ensuring that their ain homes stay secure. I served arsenic a Minister connected respective occasions — adjacent becoming the Home Minister of Bihar; yet I lived successful a residence spanning conscionable 2,400 quadrate feet,” helium said.
“When I moved into the Chief Minister’s authoritative residence, I gave instructions to rename it Lok Sevak Awas. This is the residence of a nationalist servant. No 1 holds an exclusive, hereditary assertion to the CM house. I became a Minister successful 1999, and this is the 11th residence I person had. The time I volition beryllium told that my enactment is implicit here, I volition battalion my bags and volition displacement to my backstage house,” helium added.
On Monday, RJD nationalist wide caput Abdul Siddiqui had claimed that Mr. Choudhary’s bungalow was adjacent larger than the Prime Minister’s residence, and that helium had besides merged 5, Desh Ratna Marg, formerly designated for the Deputy Chief Minister, into the CM’s residence.
Meanwhile, BCD Minister Lesi Singh met erstwhile Chief Minister Nitish Kumar successful this connection. Following the meeting, Ms. Singh said that she had provided Mr. Kumar with each the details of the situation.
Asked astir Ms. Devi’s refusal to vacate the bungalow, Ms. Singh said that she would person to vacate and displacement to the recently allotted location connected Harding Road.
