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Sonia, Priyanka in Shimla

SHIMLA: Taking time off her busy schedule, Congress president Sonia Gandhi along with daughter Priyanka Vadra on Friday visited a site here of a proposed house for Priyanka near the summer “Retreat” of the President.

“Priyanka had brought Soniaji and her grandmother to show them the site and discuss the design of the house to be constructed on the land the younger Gandhi had bought last year,” district Congress leader Kehar Singh Khacchi, who has been given power of attorney for the land and who is their caretaker here, told PTI.

The three arrived in Shimla on Thursday on a private visit and discussed the construction of the proposed house with an architect who had come from Delhi, he said.

Mr. Khacchi said the family saw a few designs of the house and told the architect that the house should be simple and built in pure Himachali style.

He said it would be a two-floor house built of wood and stone. Mr. Khacchi said in keeping with Priyanka’s wish he had called for samples of stone of black and green colour from Mandi, Kullu and Barog in Solan district. - PTI

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