New Delhi
The Trinamool Congress has lost its base in Delhi, with Barrackpore Lok Sabha MP Partha Bhowmik vacating his house at 20 Dr Rajendra Prasad Street that served as the party’s Delhi headquarters – dealing a fresh blow to the party facing the possibility of a split.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat allotment order dated June 9, 2026 designated Bhowmick Apartment No. 501, Hooghly Building (Type VII Residence) as his new official residence. The order replaces the sixth-storey bungalow on Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road that was previously occupied and used as the party’s operational base. The MP himself requested this shift.
Bhowmik is among the 19 TMC MPs who signed a formal letter to the office of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on May 18 demanding recognition as a separate parliamentary group. He was also among the rebel MPs who met BJP leaders in Delhi.
With the bungalow now closed, the TMC posters have been shifted to MP Nadimol Haq’s residence on Southern Avenue.
Historically, the TMC has managed its presence in Delhi not from a dedicated headquarters but from the designated residences of senior leaders. Earlier, the party’s activities in Delhi were coordinated from former leader Mukul Roy’s residence on Southern Avenue. After his exit from the party, the operations center moved to Abhishek Banerjee’s official residence, before eventually shifting to Bhowmik’s house on Dr. Rajendra Prasad Road.
Bhowmick and Haque did not respond to HT’s queries. At the Rajya Sabha MP’s residence on Southern Avenue, staff told HT that they had “just received instructions to bring all documents, materials and office equipment to the new location and move the furniture”.
The loss of the bungalow is compounded by the legal deprivation the party has brought upon itself. The Electoral Commission withdrew the military junta’s status as a national party in April 2023, transforming it into a state party. Under the Union government’s policy framed by the Land and Development Bureau, recognized national parties are eligible to acquire land in Delhi to build a party office, with the parties required to vacate any government bungalow used as an office within three years of receiving that land or on completion of their new office building. As a state party, the TMC’s entitlement to dedicated office space in Delhi under this framework is much weaker. The party has never built an independent party office in the capital, leaving it permanently dependent on housing allocations for its MPs – an arrangement that is now collapsing with the party itself.
Bhowmik himself is a first-term MP, having won Barrackpore in the 2024 general elections, defeating then-sitting BJP MP Arjun Singh. That he has now anchored the logistics of the rebellion in Delhi — and formally handed over to the party’s last fixed address in the capital — highlights the extent of the comprehensive collapse of the TMC’s parliamentary infrastructure.
With no legal claim to dedicated office space as a state party, and no bungalow of a loyal senior MP available as an alternative, the Trinamool Congress faces the prospect of operating in New Delhi without a fixed address at a time when it desperately needs one.
