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MLAs finally get a room to relax in Secretariat

Staff Reporter

Earlier requests to the CM were not entertained

NEW DELHI: After a long-drawn battle and several petitions to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for providing them a suitable waiting lounge area in Delhi Secretariat at Players' Building, Delhi legislators on Thursday finally managed to get a "waiting room" next to the Chief Minister's Office.

Although several MLAs in the past had raised the matter with the Chief Minister, their requests were not entertained. While the bureaucrats got themselves the best of rooms as well as a modern gymnasium and a yoga practising hall, the MLAs were left to fend for themselves shuttling between the rooms of various Ministers and officers.

However, on Thursday the matter was once again raked up by Nationalist Congress Party MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri with the Chief Minister while he was waiting in an open area for a meeting to begin. As the Chief Minister went past Mr. Bidhuri, she enquired what he was doing there. Mr. Bidhuri said it was unfortunate that in such a big building no space had been provided for the MLAs to spend their time in between meetings. At this Ms. Dikshit immediately declared that a big room next to her own office would be allotted to the MLAs and it would act as a waiting lounge.

Mr.Bidhuri was also the one who had managed to get the Chief Minister to allow the MLAs to take their vehicles to the porch of the Secretariat building last year.

Ms. Dikshit said she would issue instructions to ensure that the order was implemented immediately.

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