ITANAGAR - The Dalai Lama wound up his week-long tour of Arunachal Pradesh and left for New Delhi this morning.

The Tibetan spiritual head, who reached here from the monastery town of Tawang yesterday, left by helicopter for Guwahati from where he will fly out to New Delhi, official sources here said.

He consecrated the newly constructed official residence of his disciple Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, a Buddhist from Tawang, at his request yesterday and spent the night there.

According to official sources Khandu is likely to move to the bungalow from his private residence here within a few days.

Khandu, who has been voted back to power last month, had not moved into the official residence as it had turned shabby and dilpidated.

The old CM's offical residence, a semi-permanent structure with a tin roof, is associated with the memories of former prime ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi and former deputy prime minister L K Advani and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.

The new structure is a modern 1947 sq m double storied building built with imported fittings and materials. It came up at a cost of Rs 5 crore granted by the Centre.

The Centre has also sanctioned grants for a modern state assembly building and new state secretariat and work on them will begin soon, Khandu had told newsmen recently.