Bahujan Samajwadi Party president Mayawati has made unauthorised constructions to her four bungalows in New Delhi, as per information sourced by Delhi based activist Subhash Agrawal. While the CPWD had ordered her to stop the unauthorised construction, no action has been taken against her

Information disclosed by the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) reveals that Mayawati, president of the Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) and her Bahujan Prerna Trust had made unauthorised constructions to her four bungalows-number 4, 12, 14, 16 allotted to her on the Gurdwara Rakabganj Road (GRG) in New Delhi.

The information was furnished in response to a Right to Information (RTI) application by Delhi-based activist Subhash Agrawal who sought details of unauthorised construction done by Mayawati to the official bungalow allotted to her. He also sought list of other parliamentarians indulging in similar acts.

According to the RTI reply, dated 2 May 2012, for the bungalow No 4 on GRG, allotted to BSP national president, the unauthorised construction include raising of a compound wall, and main gate on the back side along with construction of three to four rooms and compound wall around the park at the rear side of the bungalow. The total area covered by these constructions stands to 145 sq m and it is a temporary construction.

For bungalow No 14, allotted to Mayawati as BSP president, the total space taken for unauthorised construction is 197.4 sq m. This includes construction of a verandah in entire width of the bungalow in the rear side and four rooms at the side of the bungalow.

 Similarly, for bungalow No 12 on GRG, unauthorised construction of rooms, office, toilet, kitchen along with fibre sheet, covering area of 238 sq m has been added. This bungalow is allotted to the chairman, managing trustee of Bahujan Prerna Trust. For bungalow No 16 allotted to the president of BSP, the unauthorised construction includes rooms with AC sheets and a toilet, AC steel shed along with three other rooms and a bathroom. The total covered measures to 300.86 sq m. In addition, there is a temporary unauthorised construction of tin sheets made of steel and metal, covering 180.5 sq m in the same bungalow.

The RTI reply from the CPWD also disclosed a letter dated 6 February 2012, written by the department to Mayawati requesting her to stop the illegal construction and demolish the unauthorised construction.

This disclosure comes at a time when a RTI query, reported in The Times of India, revealed that the BSP supremo, during her tenure as CM, had spent over Rs86 crore of public money to renovate her 13 Mall Avenue bungalow, which was entitled to her as CM.

Meanwhile, the list of parliamentarians who indulged in unauthorised construction includes, Sushma Swaraj, Ahmed Patel, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Suresh Kalmadi, D Venugopal, Raj Babbar, Sanjay Nirupam and Naveen Jindal. Interestingly, it also includes name of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) state office which illegal constructed additional room and an office, among others in front of the bungalow.