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These murals have been painted by eminent artists selected from all over the
country under the supervision of the Artists Sub-Committee with the Speaker as
Chairman and well-known artists and historians, archaeologists, etc. as its members.
Portraits : In several other places in the Parliament House the walls are decora­
ted with the portraits of national leaders. Most of them are displayed in the Central
Hall as already mentioned in Chapter VI. Small portraits of G. V. Mavalankar,
Schidananda Sinha, B. Das, Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, C. Vijiaraghavachariar,
Phirozshah Mehta, Dinshaw Edulji Wacha, T. Prakasam, Ran Ahmed Kidwai,
Surendranath Banerjee,Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Bhagat Singh and B. K. Dutt are
displayed in the Committee Rooms, Lobbies, etc.

Statues j Busts:
CHANDRA GUPTA MAURYA : A symbolic bronze statue of Chandra Gupta
Maurya, one of the greatest personages of ancient Indian History, who reigned from
321 B. C. to 296 B. C. is installed on a red sand-stone pedestal in the courtyard opposite
Gate No. 5 of Parliament House. This 29" high statue was made by Mrs. Hilda
Selegman, a noted sculptress. The statue bears the following inscription at its base :
"Shepherd boy Chandragupta Maurya dreaming of India he was to create".
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