KOLKATA: The proprietor of the property off EM Bypass that homes the TMC headquarters instructed officers at Pragati Maidan police station on Sunday that he needs the previous governing social gathering of Bengal to vacate the premises.Montu Saha, who owns A/P-1/A Canal South Street, stated the tenancy settlement with TMC lapsed in late 2025, and his appeals to the social gathering to maneuver out went unheeded, prompting him to hunt police assist to get his property again.Montu and his son Amit went to their property on Sunday to talk to TMC members to persuade them to shift their workplace. However no social gathering functionary was current. After ready for a few hours, they headed to the police station.The daddy-son duo indicated that they’d search authorized recourse to evict the social gathering from the Canal South Street handle, which has been often called Trinamool Bhawan for the reason that social gathering moved in three years in the past. All social gathering work for the 2024 LS polls and the 2026 meeting polls was coordinated from there.The social gathering’s unique HQ — also called Trinamool Bhawan — is now mired in controversy. Javed Khan, a insurgent social gathering MLA, has claimed that the land on which Trinamool Bhawan stands belongs to his household. “I’ve all of the paperwork to show that the Topsia Street plot is owned by my household,” he has stated.The social gathering had shifted its headquarters to the Sahas’ property because the management needed to renovate the unique Trinamool Bhawan. Montu Saha’s son Amit stated they’d rented out their property to TMC in 2022.“After the contract lapsed late final yr, we approached them a number of instances, saying we would like the constructing again. The construction wants repairs. We want it for enterprise functions. They instructed us they’d vacate the constructing by July, however we would like it again now. Currently, nobody on the social gathering has been out there to speak with us on this matter. We have been left with no possibility however to strategy the police,” Amit stated.Earlier than renting out the property to TMC, the Sahas ran a resort named ‘Arab Residency’ from the premises.A TMC functionary stated Saha didn’t do any favour to the social gathering by renting out the property. “In return, he had bagged a number of contracts.”(With inputs from Sarthak Ganguly)
