Overview
- The Patna administration’s 15-day eviction notice expired and the state has allotted 10 Circular Road to minister Nand Kishor Ram while giving Rabri Devi the 39 Harding Road residence.
- Rabri Devi filed a formal letter asking for a one-month extension and said doctors advised keeping Lalu Prasad Yadav isolated in a separate room to reduce infection risk.
- She previously dared the government to use force to evict her, a police contingent visited the bungalow and later withdrew, and no forcible eviction has taken place so far.
- The reallocation has inflamed political and caste tensions, with RJD leaders calling the move politically motivated and some new occupants publicly framing past resistance in caste terms.
- The dispute taps a longer history: 10 Circular Road has housed the Yadav family since 2005 and was later subject to Supreme Court directions on official bungalows, which shapes competing legal and symbolic claims.