New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said she would be vacating her government accommodation in Lodhi Estate by August 1. She termed reports saying that she had sought more time to do so as “fake news”.The government had on July 1 issued an eviction notice to the Congress leader, asking her to vacate the 35, Lodhi Estate bungalow before August 1.Also read: After Priyanka Eviction, Govt Clarifies that Advani Can Keep Lutyens Bungalow ‘for Life’Taking to Twitter, she termed reports claiming that she had requested the government to grant her an extension and had been granted one as “fake news”.“This is FAKE NEWS. I have not made any such request to the government. As per the eviction letter handed to me on the 1st of July, I will be vacating the government accommodation at 35 Lodhi Estate by the 1st of August,” she said in a tweet.This is FAKE NEWS.I have not made any such request to the government. As per the eviction letter handed to me on the 1st of July, I will be vacating the government accommodation at 35 Lodhi Estate by the 1st of August.https://t.co/GkBO5dkaLs— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) July 14, 2020Priyanka’s husband, businessman Robert Vadra, too shared the same article and said that it was false, and that the family was vacating the house.This is completely incorrect !!We have not asked for any extension of stay.We were sent a notice on the 1st of July to leave in 30days.We at a time of “Covid” have packed our entire household, and will leave a week before time. 🙏https://t.co/5HQ0WTh5bE— Robert Vadra (@irobertvadra) July 14, 2020The report Priyanka was citing as fake was published by IANS, and said that the prime minister had allowed Priyanka’s request to stay on in her Lutyen’s Delhi bungalow for some time. The report also included a paragraph on how Narendra Modi was being “large-hearted” towards a family that apparently regularly insulted him:“Those who know Modi say that this is not the first time that he has gone out of the way and shown large heartedness towards a family that has left no opportunity to bad mouth him, demean him and use every trick out of the book to nail him. The general impression being that both sides have a visceral hatred for one another.”The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development had last week served a notice on her to vacate the said premises before August 1 as she no longer comes under SPG security cover.“Consequent to withdrawal of SPG protection and grant of Z+ security cover by MHA, which does not provide for allotment or retention of government accommodation on security grounds to you, the allotment of type 6B house No. 35 Lodhi Estate is hereby cancelled wef July 1. One month concession period on same rent till August 1 is allowed as per rules,” the housing ministry notice had said.It also cautioned Gandhi, who had been allotted the bungalow on February 21, 1997, as she was an SPG protectee, that “any stay beyond 01.08.2020 will attract damage charges/penal rent as per rules.”After Priyanka’s tweet, Union housing minister Hardeep Singh Puri responded by saying the Congress leader was “sensationalising” the matter, and did in fact want to stay on in Lodhi Estate. This, he said, was communicated to him by another senior Congress leader who asked if the house could be kept with the party.Facts speak for themselves!A powerful Congress leader with much clout in the Party called me on 4 July 2020 at 12:05 pm to request that 35, Lodhi Estate be allotted to another INC MP so that Priyanka Vadra can stay on.Let’s not sensationalise everything please. https://t.co/n1RQr6SGm6— Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) July 14, 2020Priyanka responded to Puri by saying that she had not asked anyone to make any such calls, and the fact remained that her family was following the eviction notice and moving out of the house.… as required in the eviction letter. 2/2— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) July 14, 2020(With PTI inputs)