ANI tweeted a picture of the tunnel connecting the Red Fort and the Delhi Assembly.
A media report claimed that the tunnel connects the Legislative Assembly to the Red Fort, and is believed to have been used by the British to take jailed freedom fighters to court, so that the public would not see them and launch an agitation .
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The mouth of a tunnel was found in the Delhi Assembly on Thursday. A media report claimed that the tunnel connects the Legislative Assembly to the Red Fort, and is believed to have been used by the British to take jailed freedom fighters to court so that the public would not see them, and the movement Tease it
The report further states that the Delhi Legislative Assembly used to be the Central Legislative Assembly after the British shifted their capital from Calcutta to Delhi in 1912. It was later converted into a courthouse in 1926, and British guards used the recently discovered tunnel to transport freedom. In the meantime reached the court.
In an interview with ANI, Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said, “When I became an MLA in 1993, there was a rumor about a tunnel present here which leads to the Red Fort and I tried to discover its history. . But there was no clarity on this… Now we have got the mouth of the tunnel but we are not digging it any more because all the tunnel paths have been destroyed due to metro projects and sewer installations.”
“We all knew about the existence of the hanging room here but never opened it. It was now the 75th year of independence and I decided to inspect that room. We intend to convert that room into a temple of freedom fighters as a tribute,” he added.
Goyal further said that as a tribute to the great freedom fighters of India, he wants to open the hanging room for tourists to see by Independence Day next year. The report claims that work has already started for this.
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