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India’s corridors of power are getting a makeover — part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to cement his legacy as he looks to a third term in office in national elections next year.
The parliament building’s construction took six years, from 1921 to 1927, and it was originally called the Council House and housed the Imperial Legislative Council, the legislature of British India.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India's new parliament building on Sunday, a modern complex which is part of his Hindu nationalist government's grand plan to give a makeover to the British colonial-era architecture in the nation's capital. | 01:26am
Chakshu Roy on the 97-year-old building whose corridors and columns stand witness to a vast arc of history – from the time that it was the Council House of British India to when it became Independent India's first Parliament House, from the chaos of argumentative debates that shaped the world's biggest democracy to the consensus marked by loud thumping of desks that shaped many a legislation.
New Parliament of India: It's a monumental day for India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the new Parliament building. Constructed as part of the Central Vista Project, the new structure is triangular in shape, four-storeys high and a true representation of India – housing art pieces as well as symbols from across the nation