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Demolition notices for amerciable operation of buildings continued to beryllium issued successful West Bengal. A constabulary team visited Trinamool Congress (TMC) wide secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s residence connected Monday (May 25, 2026) to cod information equipment. Kolkata Police officials described the sojourn arsenic a regular exercise. Arrests of section Trinamool leaders have besides continued successful the 3 weeks since the caller authorities came to power.
A TMC enactment bureau successful Hooghly district’s Konnagar area was razed connected Monday. The Trinamool bureau had been illegally constructed connected authorities land, allegedly by section TMC councillor Khokon Pal, and was frankincense taken down by a bulldozer, authoritative sources said.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation had antecedently sent notices to respective properties linked to Mr. Banerjee, seeking clarification astir deviations from primitively sanctioned plans.
Bulldozers deployed
Bulldozers were besides deployed successful Kolkata’s Beleghata, Bosepukur, Tiljala, and Kasba areas on Sunday (May 24, 2026) to demolish amerciable multi-storeyed buildings allegedly connected to erstwhile oregon existent TMC leaders, and section strongmen associated with the party.
A show-cause announcement alleging amerciable operation has been issued to a gathering owned by Kasba MLA Javed Khan, who has been asked to amusement valid papers for the building or be warned of demolition work from Monday (May 26, 2026). However, Mr. Khan claimed that the gathering had no legality issues.
“We volition instrumentality enactment against whoever successful the authorities was liable for looking into amerciable construction, the ones who constructed it, developed it, and invested wealth successful it,” Minister Agnimitra Paul told mediapersons while visiting 1 of the demolition sites successful Kolkata.
On Sunday, akin enactment connected amerciable structures was seen crossed districts too, including in Purulia and Khanakul.
Both razing down amerciable structures, and the apprehension of TMC leaders, appears to person been amped up since the BJP assumed powerfulness successful the State for the archetypal clip connected May 4, 2026. Several buildings across the State and successful Kolkata person travel nether the government’s scanner, and galore person already faced demolition.
Earlier, connected Sunday (May 24, 2026), the TMC chairperson launched a crisp disapproval of the existent authorities for deploying bulldozers, the apprehension of enactment workers, and the alleged harassment of galore radical aft the election. However, many successful the party’s apical enactment person mostly remained soundless connected these issues.
Facing uncertainty
The TMC authorities successful the State was voted retired aft 15 years, yet they inactive clasp powerfulness successful the municipalities and panchayats. Many councillors have resigned, and some councillors and panchayat pradhans have been arrested in the past fewer weeks, with the TMC further affected by the nonaccomplishment of section assemblage members.
A section TMC councillor’s husband, Bappaditya Das, was arrested in Birbhum’s Suri country connected Monday. Another TMC leader, Abhishek Da, was arrested from Bardhaman for extortion and intimidation.
On Monday, astatine slightest 30 councillors in the Bhatpara municipality, including the chairman, handed successful their resignation. A akin situation was reported from the Diamond Harbour municipality, where 8 of the 16 TMC councillors resigned. In the Halisahar, Kanthi, North Barrackpore, and Garulia municipalities, over fractional the TMC councillors person resigned en masse in immoderate areas.
At slightest a dozen councillors from assorted districts crossed the State person been arrested, and galore person been grilled by the police.
Senior TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar besides resigned arsenic the party’s Barasat organisational district president, and took motivation work for the party’s nonaccomplishment successful the area. She launched crisp disapproval of the TMC’s conduct, and the relation of I-PAC successful the humiliating electoral loss.
