Indira Bhavan was built in 1972 primarily to serve as a guest house for the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for her visit to the city during the AICC session.
The Left Front government later renovated the house and converted it to the official residence of the former Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, who moved into the bungalow in August 1989 and continued to live there till his death in 2010.
"Where were these Congress leaders who are shouting now, when the LF government demolished the Indira Bhavan to convert it to official residence of Jyoti Basu", Hakim, also a Trinamool Congress leader, said.
Hakim also said there was no record of the name of the bungalow as Indira Bhavan.
Thus the sprawling Salt Lake bungalow, where Jyoti Basu lived for two decades till his death, would now be developed as Nazrul Bhavan as announced earlier by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Hakim said.
"It will be a Nazrul Academy comprising a museum and research centre on the rebel poet. The building will house primarily the poet's memorabilia, his books and research facilities on the poet's works," the chief minister had said earlier.
There had been proposal by the LF government after Basu's death that Indira Bhavan could be turned into a museum on Basu, but that plan was dropped later.
