India, June 20 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi started moving into a new spacious Type-8 official bungalow-5, Sunehri Bagh Road, New Delhi- on his 55th birthday on Thursday. He will fully shift before the Monsoon Session of Parliament begins on July 21st.

A Gandhi aide said he started shifting even as he is likely to continue meeting people at 10 Janpath, his mother Sonia Gandhi's residence, and Indira Bhavan, the Congress headquarters, even after settling in. Gandhi was entitled to the new residence as the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. "He has done it up with a lot of passion, and hence it took a year," said the aide.

The aide said Gandhi has sought to recreate "a private space" like 12, Tughlaq Lane, the house where he li...