Lucknow: In a departure from tradition, former bureaucrat-turned-MLC, Arvind Kumar Sharma, has been allotted a bungalow in Dalibagh colony by the estate department.
A government spokesman confirmed the allotment of the bungalow to Sharma by the estate department.
First-time legislators are usually allotted flats and with Sharma being given a bungalow, it is now certain that he would soon be given a ministerial position.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had constituted a committee headed by parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Khanna for taking the final decision on allotment of bungalows to ministers, MLAs and MLCs.
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Sharma, who resigned as secretary, MSME at the Centre to join the Bharatiya Janata Party, is a known Modi loyalist having worked with him for nearly 20 years in Gujarat and Delhi, and hence it is being said that he would get a plum portfolio in the state cabinet.
IANS
