Kolkata Prison Where Netaji, Nehru Were Jailed Reopens As Museum
NDTV
The British-era Alipore Jail was closed in 2019 after which the state government decided to turn it into a museum and throw it open to the public.
The historic Alipore Jail in Kolkata, where many revolutionaries including Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru were imprisoned during India's freedom struggle, has been turned into museum to celebrate the country's 75 years of Independence.
The museum, which brings to life notable moments from the freedom struggle linked to the prison and the revolutionaries who were lodged there, was inaugurated by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday.
Besides Netaji and Nehru, Aurobindo Ghosh, 'Deshbandhu' Chittaranjan Das, Kanailal Datta, Dinesh Gupta, and Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, the first Chief Minister of West Bengal, were among those who were imprisoned in the jail.
Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, then a young Indira Priyadarshini Nehru, had visited the jail to see her father during the freedom struggle.
