A tunnel-like structure was observed at the Delhi Legislative Assembly on Thursday.
Speaking to ANI, Delhi Legislative Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said that the tunnel connects the legislative assembly to Red Fort and changed into utilized by the Britishers to avoid reprisal at the same time as shifting freedom fighters.
"When I have become an MLA in 1993, there has been hearsay approximately a tunnel present here that is going till Red Fort and I tried to look for its records. But there was no readability over it," he stated.
"Now we've got the mouth of the tunnel however we aren't digging it further as all the paths of the tunnel were destroyed due to metro tasks and sewer installations," he added.
Goel in addition informed that the Delhi Legislative Assembly, which turned into used as Central Legislative Assembly after transferring of capital from Kolkata to Delhi in 1912, become turned into a court docket in 1926 and Britishers used this tunnel to carry freedom combatants to the court docket.
"We all knew approximately the presence of a gallows room right here but never opened it. Now it turned into the seventy fifth yr of independence and I determined to investigate that room. We intend to trade that room right into a shrine of freedom fighters as a tribute to them," he said.
The assembly speaker brought that during view of the history of the Delhi Legislative Assembly associated with the independence of the united states of america, he intends to open the gallows room for the travelers by the subsequent independence day and the work for the identical has already began.
"This area has a totally wealthy records within the context of the freedom war. We intend to renovate it in a manner that tourists and traffic can get a mirrored image of our records," he stated.
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