BJP top brass to vacate offices

Mon, 04 August 2025

08:39

Home Minister Amit Shah vacates the North Block which used to be occupied by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel earlier and has moved his office to the Central Vista. FM Nirmala Sitharaman will also move out next month, with defence minister Rajnath Singh and EAM Dr S Jaishankar moving out of South Block next year.

The Modi government is also building lavish apartments for 250 of its MPs.

FM Nirmala Sitharaman will be tabling the Income Tax Bill, 2025, for passage in Parliament towards achieving comprehensive simplification of the Income-tax Act, 1961.

Incidentally, Amit Shah's meeting with President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday has caused ripples and sources say the gist of the meeting is the real 'atom bomb' and not Rahul Gandhi's EC corruption claims which the Congress leader had called 'atom bomb'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and separately within hours at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here.

It was not known the reasons behind the subsequent meetings of the prime minister and the home minister with the President.

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