There
are fewer places more pleasing to live in Delhi than the Lutyens
zone, designed and built many of the official buildings during the
Raj in the 1930s and 1940s. The zone includes almost 2,000 highly
coveted bungalows, overwhelmingly held in state hands. The broad,
leafy avenues here are lined with white colonial bungalows featuring
porticoes and arches, high ceilings, spacious rooms and forbidding
perimeter walls. The quarters for the servants alone are vast and the
gardens are the size of public parks.
200
of the bungalows are still occupied by ex-MPs who should have left
the residences within a month of the last parliament being dissolved
on 25 May. New incoming MPs are keen to grab one of the nicest perks
of the job.
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