The Vidhana Soudha is the Legislative House of the south Indian Karnataka. The imposing granite structure was inaugurated on October 10, 1956. It turns 62 this year. While the core architectural structure was neo-Dravidian, it had influences of classical European and Indo-Saracenic styles.
The idea of the Vidhana Soudha came along with a wave of nationalist sentiment that swept post-Independent India. 5000 labourers were employed for the construction of this structure. Almost all the unskilled labourers were convicts and were given freedom after the completion of the Vidhana Soudha.
Over the years, many luminaries have described the Vidhana Soudha in different ways. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru called it a “temple dedicated to the nation“, former chief minister Kengal Hanumanthaiah declared it a “people's palace“ while poet laureate Kuvempu regarded it as “poetry in stone“.
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