The Legislative Assembly secretariat is in the news again for all the wrong reasons. It has now come to light that former Assembly speaker K B Koliwad, while vacating his official bungalow on Crescent Road, took with him expensive furniture that was supposed to have been returned to the Assembly secretariat. He has now offered to pay up.
Furniture marked with the Legislative Assembly Secretariat numberings were found in Koliwad’s private residence at Jarakabande Kaval in Bengaluru. The furniture includes one medium-density fibreboard (MDF) king-size bed, a king-size board storage, two MDF beds and an Italian buffalo leather sofa set.
The secretariat, after taking stock of the furniture that Koliwad had been provided at his official bungalow during his stint as Speaker, wrote to him on July 4 about the furniture that he is required to return.