MUMBAI: Ramtek, the sprawling, sea-facing bungalow on Narayan Dabholkar Road in Mumbai's posh Malabar Hill, has a bit of a reputation for being unlucky for its high-profile ministerial residents. Its suspected jinx stems from the fact that every minister who has occupied this rambling, colonial-style property has either lost their ministerial berths or faced corruption charges - in the last 29 years.
So why would Pankaja Munde, Maharashtra's environment minister, swap her newly allotted official accommodation, Chitrakut, for Ramtek? Munde has traded bungalows with revenue minister Chandrashkhar Banwakule, who readily agreed.
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