Calcutta HC orders demolition of TMC office in Rabindranath Tagore’s heritage house – India Today

Trinamool Congress’s party office in Rabindranath’s house has been ordered to be demolished by the High Court.

Photos of Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee hang in the remodelled room.

By Rittick Mondal: The Calcutta High court has ordered the demolition of a Trinamool Congress (TMC) office which was illegally built in Jorasanko Thakurbari, the ancestral house of the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

On Monday, a division bench comprising Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice R Bharadwaj directed removal of the party office from the parts of heritage building. As per the court order, the heritage committee of the university will bring the old look back of Maharshi Bhawan.

The Calcutta High Court had recently asked the West Bengal government to ensure that heritage structures at the Jorasanko campus of the Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata are not tampered with. A PIL filed at the Calcutta HC alleged that a few of the rooms at Thakurbari’s Maharshi Bhaban have being used as the office of an association and a couple of other rooms at the campus have been remodelled. The association is alleged to be close to ruling Trinamool Congress.

The Maharshi Bhawan is the part of the building where Rabindranath spent his childhood. It has been illegally occupied by an office of the varsity’s workers’ wing run by the ruling Trinamool Congress.

On Monday, the court also directed demolition of another structure which was illegally occupied by Trinamool Congress workers union in Rabindra Bharati University, BT Road campus.

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