In the Parliament (Central Assembly) on 8 February 1947, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru presented a resolution for the independence of the country.
During the British rule it was felt that India’s Capital If Delhi is made then governance will be more effective. This city was in the north. mughal emperor Shahjahan’s Delhi had been the capital during that time. Finally, in 1911, the British Maharaja George V ordered the transfer of the capital from Kolkata to Delhi. Delhi was now the capital, but there was no such building here from which the administration could be handled.
Eventually it was decided to build a central administrative building in Delhi. Architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker designed it. A map of other major buildings of Delhi was made along with the Viceroy’s House. In 1927 the administrative building was completed. Which was later called the Central Assembly and became our Parliament after independence. The same Parliament House which will become the past on 28th May.
How did the name Central Assembly come about?
During the British rule, the Lok Sabha was replaced by the Imperial Legislative Council, which was formed in 1919. Rajya Parishad used to be in place of Rajya Sabha. There was no place for their meeting. In such a situation, the idea came that the administrative building itself should be adopted for this. In 1927, the then Viceroy Lord Irwin inaugurated the administrative building. After this, the third meeting of the Central Assembly of British Indian rule was held in it. Since then it came to be known as the Central Assembly.
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Bhagat Singh threw the bomb in this Central Assembly
In 1929, on April 8, Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw a bomb in the hall of this Central Assembly. This step of the revolutionaries was to oppose the Public Safety Bill and the Trade Dispute Bill which were passed in this Central Assembly. In this, due to the Public Safety Bill, the right to strike was taken away from the workers and the Public Safety Bill had the right to keep the suspects in custody without trial.
Parliament called after independence
After India gained independence on 14 August 1947, the Central Assembly came to be known as the Indian Parliament. The first sitting of independent India in Parliament was held in the Central Hall in 1947. This meeting was of the Constituent Assembly, which was presided over by Dr. Rajendra Prasad. On November 14, 1948, the draft of the constitution was presented in this building by the chairman of the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly, Dr. BR Ambedkar.
Dr. Ambedkar created the Constitution here
It was in the Constitution Hall of the present Parliament House that Dr. Ambedkar along with other members of the committee drafted the Constitution. After the Indian Constitution came into force in 1950, the first meeting of Parliament was held here in 1952. Since then, the Parliament has been witness to 17 Lok Sabhas and innumerable important decisions. With the inauguration of the new Parliament House on May 28, this glorious building will be a thing of the past.
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