New Delhi: The Union Government has finally woken up to the security threat arising out of some MPs unscrupulously letting out their bungalows on rent.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister P R Dasmunshi told Lok Sabha on Tuesday that he will call for all facts in this regard.
The issue came up in Parliament on Tuesday after CNN-IBN exposed how anyone can take a room on rent in a Union Minister's house, all for just a few hundred rupees.
The CNN-IBN investigation revealed how it is so much easy to rent a house in the high-security Lutyen's zone of Delhi and how several Members of Parliament are letting out their official premises for rents as low as Rs 1,500 just to make some easy cash.
The CNN-IBN investigation team also came across several instances where MPs have let out their servant quarters to people of doubtful identify and even police was kept in dark about it.
In fact, the police don't have any clue about the tenants in the VIP bungalows. The police say their hands are tied when it comes to verification drives in the VIP bungalows.
Posing as 'prospective tenants', a CNN-IBN investigation team even managed to rent a premise right next to Rashtrapati Bhawan and in several other important addresses.
Responding to the issue, Congress spokesperson and Union Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy said the government will institute an investigation to the reports of VIP bungalows being let out and action would be taken against the guilty officers.
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