Reacting to the second notice served on December 13 by the building construction department to former Chief Minister Rabri Devi to vacate the sprawling bungalow within a week, her husband and RJD President Lalu Prasad accompanied by a battery of TV reporters visited the proposed residence '10 Circular Road', earlier occupied by his brother-in-law Sadhu Yadav.

After inspecting the building in which repair works were on, he said the house was yet not ready and there was no hope of it getting completed in seven days.

Lalu told reporters on Friday he would move to the new bungalow, renamed by Sadhu Yadav as '10 Janpath' a la the residence of Congress President Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi, only after it was spruced up, implying that the Lalu family was in no mood to comply with the seven-day eviction notice.

"Let the new government send its men to remove my belongings when the December 20 deadline ends...We will cooperate with them", he said. But, the building construction department seems in no mood to extend the deadline.

"There is no proposal before me for extending the one-week deadline for vacating One Anne Marg", secretary of the department A K Singh told PTI today.

"10 Circular Road bungalow is ready for moving in. Whatever more needs to be done can be done after the occupants start living there," Singh added.

Lalu had also protested the tone and tenor of the notice. Alleging it was an act of "political vendetta" by the Nitish Kumar government, the RJD Chief had said "are these words you should use for a former CM who is also a lady? How can she vacate it when renovation of the alloted house is not over?" December 13 notice was the second sent to Rabri for vacating One Anne Marg. The first was issued barely hours after Nitish Kumar government was sworn in on November 24.

Though the erstwhile first couple of Bihar have said so many times that they would not waste time in shifting to their new house after the renovation works were over, sources attributed their hesitation in moving out to two factors.

The first was inauspicious period of 'kharmas' that will end by mid-January.