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Bulldozers razed a Trinamool Congress enactment bureau and a timepiece tower, some amerciable structures, successful West Bengal on Thursday (May 14, 2026). This comes a time aft an allegedly amerciable tannery was brought down in Kolkata’s Tiljala area aft a occurrence broke retired successful the building, sidesplitting two and injuring 3 persons.
A Kolkata Municipal Corporation squad demolished a green clock operation successful southbound Kolkata’s Garia area. Locals had reportedly complained astir the operation being illegal, but authorities did not instrumentality enactment adjacent aft a court had issued an bid to demolish it successful 2025.
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The timepiece operation was inaugurated by erstwhile Trinamool MLA and Minister Aroop Biswas. He mislaid his Tollygunge spot in the Assembly elections to Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) campaigner Papiya Adhikari.
“They built the timepiece operation wrong our playground. Aroop Biswas’ men threatened our nine members erstwhile we protested against it,” a section nonmigratory said.
Several timepiece towers had travel up successful parts of Kolkata successful the past fewer years during the Trinamool’s regularisation successful the State. Some besides resembled the iconic Big Ben of London.
In a abstracted incidental successful North 24 Parganas’ Naihati area, an amerciable Trinamool enactment bureau was razed. Authorities said the enactment bureau was constructed connected onshore belonging to the Railways.
On Wednesday (May 13, 2026), Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari had said that the authorities volition person a “zero-tolerance policy” towards amerciable structures and corruption successful unlawful factories.
“We person asked the energy supplier to permanently halt the powerfulness proviso and directed CESC [the distributor] to immediately disconnect the powerfulness to amerciable factories successful the Tiljala, Kasba, and Mominpur areas. We person told them to bash an contiguous audit to spot who does not person sanctioned gathering plans. Power proviso to specified buildings indispensable beryllium stopped immediately,” helium had said.
As per his instructions, the corp is preparing a database of amerciable factories successful Kolkata, and it volition beryllium handed implicit to CESC and the civic body’s h2o department on Thursday (May 14, 2026).
Bulldozers were deployed successful the State conscionable days aft the BJP stormed to power. A Trinamool enactment bureau and different structures were razed successful Kolkata’s New Market country a time aft the triumph connected May 5.
