After Historic Shift, What Happens To Old Parliament Building Now?

after historic shift, what happens to old parliament building now?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday kick started the special Parliament session with an emotional tribute to the old Parliament building. The 73-year-old said hat he never thought ‘he will get so much love’.

Modi further lauded the contributions made by former PMs – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and more.

“The echo of Nehru ji’s Stroke of Midnight speech will inspire us. It is also in this House where Atal Bihari Vajpayee said governments will come and go, but this country will stay,” PM Modi listed key milestones in the old Parliament building.

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The parliament proceedings will move to the new parliament building on Tuesday. Several leaders, including Shashi Tharoor and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, paid their tributes to the old building.

“It is really an emotional moment for all of us to move out from this (old) Parliament building today. We are all present here to bid adieu to our old building… Pandit Nehru had said that Parliamentary democracy demands many virtues, it demands ability, devotion to work, and self-discipline,” Chowdhury said.

What happens to the old Parliament building now?

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The old Parliament building was completed in 1927. It is 96 years old and was designed by British architects Sir Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker.

Government sources, per several media outlets, say that the old building will not be demolished. Then plan is for it to be “retrofitted” to provide more functional spaces for parliamentary events.

“The historic structure will be conserved, as it is an archaeological asset of the country,” sources said, according to an NDTV report. Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had in 2021 said that the old structure will be repaired and used for other activities.

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Some reports suggest that the national archives will be shifted to the new parliament building for heritage and the old building could be converted into a museum.

The new building has the capacity to seat as many as 888 members in the Lok Sabha chamber and 300 in the Rajya Sabha. For a joint sitting of both the houses, 1,280 MPs can be accommodated in the Lok Sabha chamber.