"This drama cannot continue": BJP threatens to dissolve KMC board

The ongoing administrative deadlock within the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has taken a highly confrontational turn, with senior opposition leader and BJP Councillor Sajal Ghosh threatening a complete collapse of the civic board. Ghosh launched a blistering attack against the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) administration following an unprecedented incident where the monthly session was conducted inside the Councillors' Club after elected representatives were locked out of the main Council Chamber.

Expressing intense fury over the institutional breakdown, the opposition has accused the ruling board of deliberately subverting democratic norms. Sajal Ghosh issued a stern warning to the civic executive wing, announcing that he will formally lodge a complaint with both the Municipal Commissioner and the Minister for Urban Development and Municipal Affairs.

He strongly questioned the constitutional validity of the makeshift meeting, demanding full accountability for how an official municipal session could be conducted dynamically without formally inviting or involving the opposition councillors. Condemning the entire sequence of events as an unacceptable political theater, Ghosh asserted that if the ruling party cannot maintain basic legislative decorum, the state should step in to dissolve the current civic board and immediately deploy a government-appointed administrator to manage daily affairs.