INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: The 15-day period for Rahul Gandhi to respond to the Lok Sabha House Committee's re-allotment of the 12, Tughlaq Lane bungalow to
him lapsed on Wednesday without the Congress leader conveying his acceptance of it.While party sources said this was not an outright
"rejection" of the allotment, they did not rule out the possibility of Rahul not returning to the bungalow keeping in mind the "vengeful"
manner in which his Lok Sabha membership was suspended and he was asked to vacate the house he had been staying in since 2005.01:56Rahul
Bharat Jodo Yatra in Ladakh, is also learnt to be exploring a few other "smaller" options of official houses to move in, and had also seen,
among other houses, the 7, Safdarjung Lane bungalow.Days after a Surat court handed Rahul a two-year sentence in a criminal defamation case
over the Modi surname, the Lok Sabha House Committee served him a notice, giving him a month to vacate the bungalow allotted to him as
Member of Parliament.Rahul vacated the bungalow on April 22, within the one-month deadline, and moved in with his mother Sonia Gandhi in her
At the time of moving out, he said he was being "punished" for speaking the truth, and added that he did not want to live in the house that
had been "snatched away" despite it being given to him by the people of India.Asked about the re-allocation, Rahul had said, "The whole of
