Kurseong Municipality has decided to name a new community hall on Dow Hill Road after Subash Ghisingh, the late GNLF chief still considered the tallest political leader of the hills.

The civic body’s recent move to call the building Municipal Community Hall drew flak from Trinamul and the GNLF, forcing the change.

“We have decided to rename the new community hall as the Subash Ghisingh Memorial Community Hall. The decision was taken at a meeting of the board of councillors on Sunday evening,” Kurseong Municipality vicechairman Subhash Pradhan said on Monday.

In 2018, chief minister Mamata Banerjee during her visit to the hills announced the project and asserted it would be named after Ghisingh. The north Bengal development department allotted funds for the hall and the state PWD built it.

The local civic body, however, named it differently, prompting GNLF leaders in Kurseong to threaten a movement against the civic body and Trinamul Rajya Sabha member from the hills Shanta Chhetri to accuse the civic body of going against the chief minister’s announcement.

Chhetri on Monday said: “I appreciate their decision to go by the chief minister’s announcement and name the hall after the most respected leader of the hills."