A galaxy of political leaders and Congress workers will g💧ather on the premises of the historic Albert Hall in Jaipur on Monday for taking the oath and swearing-in ceremony of Ashok Gehlot as chief minister of Rajasthan.
A fine example of Indo-Saracenic, a revival architectur🧜al style mostly used by the British in the later 19th century, the foundation of the iconic structure was laid in 1▨876 during the visit the Prince of Wales, Albert Edward, to Jaipur.
The construction was completed ﷺin 1887 by the architect Samual Swinton Jacob, who was the director of Jaipur PWD then.
Located 🥃in Ram Niwas Garden outside the 💯old city wall, the hall is a museum where thousands of people visit during the tourist season, usually during the winters.
On Monday morning, 𓄧Congress leaders Gehlot and Sachin Pilot would take oath as chief minister and deputy chief minister of Rajasthan🐓 respectively at Albert Hall.
Several senior Congress leaders and hundreds of party work☂ers are expected to attend the event.
"Congress president Rahul Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, and other leaders❀ will attend the c൩eremony," Gehlot told reporters on Sunday.
Oath-taking ceremonies are usually organised at the Raj Bhawan. However, the function in 2003 and 2013, when Vasundhara Raje took oath as chief minister, was held at Janpath outside the Ra𓃲j🍌asthan Assembly building. And this time, Albert Hall has been decided as the venue for the event.
"There would be a large number of guests an🍸d leaders of various political parties will attend the ceremony. So, Albert Hall was finalised," Satyendra Singh Raghav, the Pradesh Congrꦛess Committee spokesperson, told PTI.
"The cerem✱ony will be held in the open... Seating arrangements are being made to accommodate about 11,000 people," an official of the public works departm𒅌ent said.
Nearly 2,000 VIP guests will attend the function.
The leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, 🍰Puducherry CM V Narayanasamy, Punjab CM Amarinder Singh, former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, and others will attend the function.
Allies of the Congress party will also be present during the⛎ ceremony💧 at Albert Hall, a distinctive landmark in Jaipur where cultural functions are also held on different occasions.
With its beautiful architecture dominated by onion domes, archways and terraces, the building of the hall became an integral part of its display, its architecture and stone ornamentation became a source of reference for varied classic Indian styles of design from Mughal to Ra🐲jput.
The corridors were decorated with murals in a var🃏iety of styles including the Ramayana, reproducing paintings fr❀om illustrations in the Persian Razmnama prepared for Emperor Akbar.
European, Egyptian, Chinese, Greek and Babylonian civilizations were portrayed in the murals to enable the people of the region to compare and contrast them with their own and develop their knowledge of the history and 𝔍art.
Albert Hall became a center for imparting knowledge of the history of 📖civilizations, inspiring artisans to improve their skills, and pr🔥eserving and developing traditional Indian arts, crafts, and architectural forms.
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