Subhechcha Ganguly 
The Visva Bharati issued an eviction order against Sen last week, indicating that it will seize control of.13 percent of the 1.38 acres of leased land that are occupied by Sen’s family property on May 6.Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, declared on Wednesday that she will hold a sit-in protest at Santiniketan in the Birbhum district to protest Visva Bharati officials’ attempt to bulldoze Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s home.
The Prime Minister serves as chancellor of Visva Bharati, the only central university in West Bengal that was founded in 1921 by Rabindranath Tagore.On January 30, Banerjee met Sen at “Pratichi,” the home his father built, and gave him a record from the state department of land and revenue proving that he is the rightful owner of the entire 1.38 decimal covered by the property thanks to a mutation carried out in 2006.
Visva Bharati contested the document.Vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty has been asserting since 2022 that the remaining.13 decimal should be restored to the university because the economist’s father, Ashutosh Sen, who was a professor at Visva Bharati, had only leased 1.25 acres of land on a 99-year lease in 1943.
