The need for the building was born out of the constitutional reforms of 1919 known also as the Montagu Chelmsford Reforms.
Nostalgia vied for space with politics on Monday as the special session of Parliament opened to bid farewell to the grand colonial building that nurtured a nascent democracy into the formidable behemoth that it is today, safeguarding the drafters of India’s founding document, the Constitution, on its way.