<p>New Delhi: Leader of Opposition Atishi and other AAP MLAs were marshalled out of the Delhi Assembly on Wednesday following a heated exchange between them and BJP members over the authenticity of a so-called British-era "phansi ghar" (execution room) on the House premises.</p><p>Speaker Vijender Gupta said the structure, renovated and inaugurated in 2022 by then chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, was actually a "tiffin room" and not a site of colonial executions.</p><p>Minister Kapil Mishra accused the previous AAP government of "tampering with history" by projecting a false narrative. "They spent crores turning a tiffin room into a fake execution site, insulting our martyrs and misleading people," he said.</p>.Delhi Assembly: Speaker says British-era 'Phansi-ghar' inaugurated by Kejriwal was tiffin room; BJP, AAP spar.<p>AAP MLA Sanjeev Jha, however, defended the room's historical significance, arguing that many such execution sites were never officially recorded.</p><p>"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.</p><p>Jha warned against "whitewashing British tyranny" in an attempt to target Kejriwal and urged that materials from the site be examined by the Archaeological Survey of India.</p><p>As the altercation between the treasury and opposition benches escalated, the speaker ordered Atishi and other AAP MLAs to be removed from the House.</p>
<p>New Delhi: Leader of Opposition Atishi and other AAP MLAs were marshalled out of the Delhi Assembly on Wednesday following a heated exchange between them and BJP members over the authenticity of a so-called British-era "phansi ghar" (execution room) on the House premises.</p><p>Speaker Vijender Gupta said the structure, renovated and inaugurated in 2022 by then chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, was actually a "tiffin room" and not a site of colonial executions.</p><p>Minister Kapil Mishra accused the previous AAP government of "tampering with history" by projecting a false narrative. "They spent crores turning a tiffin room into a fake execution site, insulting our martyrs and misleading people," he said.</p>.Delhi Assembly: Speaker says British-era 'Phansi-ghar' inaugurated by Kejriwal was tiffin room; BJP, AAP spar.<p>AAP MLA Sanjeev Jha, however, defended the room's historical significance, arguing that many such execution sites were never officially recorded.</p><p>"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.</p><p>Jha warned against "whitewashing British tyranny" in an attempt to target Kejriwal and urged that materials from the site be examined by the Archaeological Survey of India.</p><p>As the altercation between the treasury and opposition benches escalated, the speaker ordered Atishi and other AAP MLAs to be removed from the House.</p>