<p class="title">A prison cell in Jaitu town of Punjab's Faridkot district where Jawaharlal Nehru and two other Congress leaders were lodged in 1923 has collapsed due to incessant rains, a senior police official said on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During the Independence movement, Nehru and his colleagues were briefly lodged there for violating prohibitory orders banning their entry into the then princely state of Nabha.</p>.<p class="bodytext">One wall and the roof of the historical 240 square-ft jail room in which Nehru, K Santhanam and A T Gidwani were kept on September 22, 1923, collapsed on Wednesday following heavy rains, Faridkot Senior Superintendent of Police Rajbachan Singh Sandhu said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nehru along with the two Congress leaders had arrived at Jaitu to participate in 'Jaitu Ka Morcha' launched by the Akalis against the Britishers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The SSP said the condition of the room was not good and nothing was done to maintain it for the past several years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nehru had come to Jaitu after a resolution was passed in the Congress session in 1923 supporting the morcha. Nehru along with the two Congress leaders was sent by the party to get information about political developments.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After remaining in the cell for a day on September 23, 1923, the Congress leaders, including Nehru, were shifted to Nabha jail after the court handed them a two-year jail term on October 3.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During his Punjab visit in 2008, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had on September 23 visited the cell, where the country’s first prime minister once stayed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The cell is adjacent to the Jaitu Police Station.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Punjab Congress general secretary Pawan Goyal said the then Congress government at the Centre had sanctioned Rs 65 lakh for the maintenance of the cell.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The state tourism department has taken the jail room for its maintenance for the past 10 years, but nothing has been done to develop it as a tourist destination," he said.</p>
<p class="title">A prison cell in Jaitu town of Punjab's Faridkot district where Jawaharlal Nehru and two other Congress leaders were lodged in 1923 has collapsed due to incessant rains, a senior police official said on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During the Independence movement, Nehru and his colleagues were briefly lodged there for violating prohibitory orders banning their entry into the then princely state of Nabha.</p>.<p class="bodytext">One wall and the roof of the historical 240 square-ft jail room in which Nehru, K Santhanam and A T Gidwani were kept on September 22, 1923, collapsed on Wednesday following heavy rains, Faridkot Senior Superintendent of Police Rajbachan Singh Sandhu said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nehru along with the two Congress leaders had arrived at Jaitu to participate in 'Jaitu Ka Morcha' launched by the Akalis against the Britishers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The SSP said the condition of the room was not good and nothing was done to maintain it for the past several years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nehru had come to Jaitu after a resolution was passed in the Congress session in 1923 supporting the morcha. Nehru along with the two Congress leaders was sent by the party to get information about political developments.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After remaining in the cell for a day on September 23, 1923, the Congress leaders, including Nehru, were shifted to Nabha jail after the court handed them a two-year jail term on October 3.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During his Punjab visit in 2008, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had on September 23 visited the cell, where the country’s first prime minister once stayed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The cell is adjacent to the Jaitu Police Station.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Punjab Congress general secretary Pawan Goyal said the then Congress government at the Centre had sanctioned Rs 65 lakh for the maintenance of the cell.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The state tourism department has taken the jail room for its maintenance for the past 10 years, but nothing has been done to develop it as a tourist destination," he said.</p>