The Mysuru District Congress Committee has finally decided to construct a “Congress Bhavan” on a two-acre plot at Bhudevi Farm situated adjacent to the city railway station. A team of architects from a Benglauru-based agency visited the site recently at the behest of the president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee and obtained complete details of the land to prepare a master plan for the new Congress Bhavan. The agency is expected to submit the plan in the next few days and if all goes well, construction work will begin from the second week of May.
Though Mysuru is the home district of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, the District Congress Committee had no office of its own and was housed at the KR Market complex. After a portion of the market collapsed and the authorities deciding to reconstruct the market, the District Congress Committee was left with no building to function from. Mr. Siddaramaiah, who had wanted to meet Congress workers at the office in the market complex, had to cancel the programme after officials informed him that the building might not withstand a large gathering.
The Mysuru City Corporation granted 11,000 square yards at Bhudevi Farm (situated between railway line and J.L.B. Road) in 1965 to the Mysuru District Congress Committee on a 99-year lease policy and a rent of ₹12 per annum. Since then, several proposals to build the office did not materialise, and the Congress had to set up its office at the market complex.
Congress leader C. Dase Gowda, who held the post of the president of the District Congress Committee for over 17 years, told The Hindu that a meeting of the Block Congress presidents, office-bearers of the District Congress Committee, Youth Congress, and Mahila Congress held recently resolved to build the Congress Bhavan at Bhudevi Farm. The Chief Minister and the KPCC president, while appreciating the resolution, had offered financial support to the project. They had also promised of getting grants from the party to construction the building, he said.
The former Mayor, Dakshina Murthy, who is a senior Congress leader, said that the building would be built in two years.
