Vivekananda home sans water, courtesy KMC.

(From The Statesman (India))

Statesman News Service KOLKATA, July 16. - The Ramakrishna Mission now appears to be in the KMC's line of fire. The Deputy Prime Minister may not know this, but the ancestral home of Swami Vivekananda, which he had visited on 6 July, will get a water connection from the KMC only if RKM authorities cough up Rs 6 lakh. This comes at a time when Mr LK Advani is looking into whether funds can be mobilised for renovation and extension of Vivekananda's home in north Kolkata. Though the KMC's decision can't be questioned on technical grounds, as it is within its rights to ask money for water supply connections, the question remains as to why the …