Bengal Power Centre To Return To Writer's From Nabanna
May 05, 2026
The iconic building, raised in the British era, is located close to not only Lok Bhavan and Kolkata Police headquarters, Lalbazaar, but also important establishments including GPO and RBI eastern region office among others.
Kolkata: The power centre of the West Bengal government is all set to return to the historic Writer's Building at BBD Bag in the heart of Kolkata from Nabanna in Howrah after the regime change in the state on Monday. The public works department has started its renovation at the landmark address of governance from where the Congress, CPM and Trinamul Congress once ruled the state.
The iconic building, raised in the British era, is located close to not only Lok Bhavan and Kolkata Police headquarters, Lalbazaar, but also important establishments including GPO and RBI eastern region office among others. State BJP president and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya said, “Our commitment to run the government from the Writer's remains intact.”
After coming to power for the first time, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee stepped into the Writer's as Chief Minister after leading a massive rally from Raj Bhavan following her oath taking on May 20 in 2011. But her stay there did not last long. On October 4 of 2013, Banerjee bid adieu to the Writer's Building for lack of space and amenities though her critics claimed that her party leaders including some ministers by then came under the radar of the Central Bureau of Investigation and other agencies in the chit fund scam.
She shifted her government to the multi-storeyed HRBC Building at Shibpur in Howrah across river Hooghly and renamed it as Nabanna. Ironically, the state government employees were seen celebrating on Tuesday her defeat, raising slogans of ‘Jai Shree Ram’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’.
The iconic building, raised in the British era, is located close to not only Lok Bhavan and Kolkata Police headquarters, Lalbazaar, but also important establishments including GPO and RBI eastern region office among others. State BJP president and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya said, “Our commitment to run the government from the Writer's remains intact.”
After coming to power for the first time, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee stepped into the Writer's as Chief Minister after leading a massive rally from Raj Bhavan following her oath taking on May 20 in 2011. But her stay there did not last long. On October 4 of 2013, Banerjee bid adieu to the Writer's Building for lack of space and amenities though her critics claimed that her party leaders including some ministers by then came under the radar of the Central Bureau of Investigation and other agencies in the chit fund scam.
She shifted her government to the multi-storeyed HRBC Building at Shibpur in Howrah across river Hooghly and renamed it as Nabanna. Ironically, the state government employees were seen celebrating on Tuesday her defeat, raising slogans of ‘Jai Shree Ram’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’.