We paid Rs 51 lakh for electrical maintenance at Sonia Gandhi's house

The house of UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has ACs and fancy halogen lights–and that really doesn’t come cheap.

According to a DNA report , Central Public Works Department (CPWD) spent Rs 51 lakh for the maintenance of electrical fittings at Sonia Gandhi’s house at 10 Janpath in 2013-14.

That is basically tax payers’ money.

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That’s a 557 percent jump in what was spent for electrical fittings in the previous year. The _DNA_report, citing an RTI query,saidthe CPWD had spent Rs 7,82,968 in the year 2012-13and Rs 2,65,681 for the year 2011-12.

The report also notes that to maintain electric fittings at the house of Rahul Gandhi at 12 Tughlak Road, CPWD had spent Rs 3,80,320 in fiscal year 2013-14.

Earlier, a report in 2010 had noted that the electricity bill at Sonia Gandhi’s house for three years was Rs 7 lakh. The PTI report noted that out of the total bill of Rs 7.47 lakh, the Lok Sabha Secretariat paid Rs 7.38 lakh while Gandhi herself paid about Rs 9,000.

Read the DNA report here to know how much CPWD paid for electrical fitting at Atal Vihari Vajpayee and Priyanka Vadra’s house.