Prime Minister Narendra Modi and lawmakers paid tribute on Monday to India’s parliament on the eve of its shift from a British colonial-era building to a brand new complex, reports Reuters.
image for illustration: Old Parliament New Delhi by A.Savin, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons
… In May, Modi inaugurated the new parliament…
Reuters writes:
Built by British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker two decades before India’s 1947 independence, the old parliament…
….is to become a museum, its 788 members moving to a new, triangular-shaped complex as part of a $2.4 billion rebuild of institutions with a more Indian identity….
In May, Modi inaugurated the new parliament, part of an ambitious redevelopment of the Central Vista complex in New Delhi….
… “It is a very emotional moment to bid farewell to the old parliament building …. Its glory also belongs to us,” Modi told lawmakers in the lower house of the old parliament….
While opposition leaders questioned the significance of the special session, they bid farewell to the old building and looked forward to better logistics, security and technology.
