Priyanka's dream house nearing completion

New Delhi, Nov 8 : While Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has been hotfooting it around the country's outback, building up the party and recruiting more youth, his sister Priyanka has been quietly overseeing the construction of her dream home in Himachal Pradesh.

Insiders point out that the four-bedroom cottage, built at a height of more than 8,000 feet in the picturesque Charabra area, is nearing completion. Last week, both Priyanka and her mother and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi made a quick dash to Shimla to see how the two-storey house was shaping up.

Kehar Singh Khachi, a Congress activist who is supervising the cottage construction, believes it will be complete by December and is working at a frenetic pace to see that it meets the deadline. Khachi, in fact, played a key role in buying the land for around Rs.4.7 million two years ago. The plot is close to The Retreat, the summer holiday resort of the Indian president, and the Oberoi Group's luxury spa Wildflower Hall.

--IANS