After 17 years Tarun Gogoi leaves government bungalow
Guwahati, July 27 (IBNS): Former Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi finally bid adieu to his Koinadhara residence and shifted to cabinet minister colony in Guwahati.
After the Supreme Court directive to the ex Chief Ministers to vacate government bungalows, Tarun Gogoi, the former three times Chief Minister of Assam on Friday moved out of the guest house situated on a hilltop of Koinadhara.
He took entry of the bungalow in 2001 after becoming the Chief Minister of Assam.
The Koinadhara guest house was built in 1976 during the Congress session held in Guwahati, attended by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
The Koinadhara guest house bears testimony of Gogoi’s success and struggle.
After entering in the new bungalow in the cabinet minister colony, Gogoi said that, that (Koinadhara guest house) was not my permanent residence. It is an official residence.
“I was the Chief Minister of Assam for 15 years and hence stayed there. This cabinet minister colony bungalow was allotted to me, but there was no fencing, no boundary wall and no provisions of security, so I stayed at the Koinadhara guest house for two more years. Otherwise I would have shifted to the allotted bungalow earlier. I wstayed there for a long time and many memorable moments are attached with it,” Tarun Gogoi said.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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