NEW PARLIAMENT & THE MANY DISCUSSIONS
So much had been written and discussed ad nauseum about the new parliament building for India which was inaguarated by the PM last week, and there is no point in elaborating on that again. Let us look at the other aspect of the parliament building opened amid so much fanfare and installation of a sceptre next to the speaker's chair in the Lok Sabha in the new parliament building. in the days leading to the Indian independence in 1947, the British were discussing why they had to hand over the power to the then congress party as they had taken over from different regional satraps and kings. This was conveyed by the British government to the then Governor General Lord Louis Mountbatten who was spearheading the handing over of the power to the Indian people. The congress party went into a huddle on this unexpected turn of events just before the freedom and discussed the matter threadbare in their meeting. Finally, it was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who broke the imbroglio sug...