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Podcast: India News - English
Episode: This is barbarism: Congress slams Centres move to vacate National Museum
Description: Congress slammed the central government after a PTI report claimed that Delhi's National Museum will likely be vacated by the end of 2023 as part of the Central Vista redevelopment project. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said the move is simply barbarism. "A historic building of immense architectural importance is to be demolished and replaced by a cookie-cutter government building! And in the meantime there will be no National Museum for two years at least. This is barbarism, pure and simple," said Tharoor on X. The party's general secretary Jairam Ramesh said that the nation would lose not just a majestic structure...