DHAKA: New Delhi authorities cut power and water supplies to homes of former ministers and lawmakers, including India’s last federal civil aviation minister, after they ignored repeated eviction warnings.

Reports said Sunday, according to The Straits Times.

Congress Party ally and former civil aviation minister Ajit Singh, along with ex-Congress lawmakers like cricketer-turned-politician Mohammad Azharuddin, refused to leave despite a crushing election defeat at the hands of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in May.

‘Power and water supplies have been disconnected to a total 30 houses occupied by former ministers and ex-MPs who are yet to vacate their government accommodations despite being given adequate time to do so,’ an unidentified New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) senior official was quoted by the Times of India as saying.

While Ajit Singh admitted that he had no right to occupy the official home, he argued that many BJP ministers and lawmakers lived in the plush Lutyens’ whitewashed bungalows during the two-term rule of the Congress-led coalition government.

BDST: 2056 HRS, SEP 14, 2014