‘Phansi ghar’ row escalates: Atishi marshalled out of Delhi assembly; AAP demands ASI survey | India News
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Delhi assembly Atishi and other AAP MLAs on Wednesday were marshalled out of the house following a heated exchange with BJP members over the authenticity of a so-called British-era “phansi ghar” on the House premises, reported news agency PTI.Speaker Vijinder Gupta on Tuesday had claimed that the structure, renovated and inaugurated in 2022 by then CM Arvind Kejiriwal, was actually a “tiffin room” and not a colonial-era execution site.Minister Kapil Mishra accused the former AAP government of “tampering with history” by promoting a false narrative.”They spent crores turning a tiffin room into a fake execution site, insulting our martyrs and misleading people,” he said, as quoted by the agency. AAP MLA Sanjeev Jha, however, defended the room’s historical value, arguing that many execution sites from that era were never officially documented.“Historians have differing views on such places. In the 1912 map of this building, that is the only double-storey structure consistent with a hanging chamber,” he said.Jha cautioned against “whitewashing British tyranny” to target Kejriwal and called for the Archaeological Survey of India to examine materials from the site.As the clash between the treasury and opposition benches intensified, the speaker ordered Atishi and other AAP MLAs to be evicted from the House.
