More than 10 former ministers and ex-legislators of the Bhartiya Janta Party are “unauthorisedly” residing in ministerial bungalows and quarters in Jammu Kashmir, the wire reported.
Out of the ten, the names of BJP leaders Ravinder Raina, the president of Jammu Kashmir unit of BJP and Kavinder Gupta, former deputy chief minister and assembly speaker have appeared on the list.
Others in the list include Sunil Sharma, Shakti Raj Parihar, Sat Sharma, Sukhnandan Choudhary and Bali Baghat, Neelam Langeh (ex-MLA), Daleep Singh Parihar (ex-MLA), R. S. Pathania (ex-MLA), Rajesh Gupta ( ex-MLA), Vibodh Gupta (ex-MLC), Pradeep Sharma (ex-MLC), Ashok Khajuria (ex-MLC), and Vikram Randhwa (ex-MLC).
A few of its lower-rung cadre is also residing in government accommodation.
Kavinder Gupta has denied the reports and said that nobody is living in government accommodations unauthorisedly.