GUWAHATI, NOV 2: Water and electricty connections to former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta’s quarters inside the Assam Assembly complex were snapped on Wednesday as he has not shifted to a new accommodation despite receiving several notices.
After receving several notices to shift the quarters, Mahanta didn’t shift to other accommodation, and the department conceerned have to snapped his electricity and water connections.
Mahanta is not an MLA at present and his official residence is not the responsibility of the Assembly Secretariat.
The General Administration Department of the Assam government is the nodal agency to provide accommodation to a former chief minister.
Assam-type houses have walls of bamboo or reed mesh, plaster set in a wooden framework and wooden floors that are highly earthquake resistant.
Mahanta has been living in the Assembly complex in a house which was made by joining quarters numbered 54, 55 and 56, since 1985 when he became the chief minister for the first time.