India, March 7 -- Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who on Friday appeared before the Privileges Committee of the Assembly over the Phansi Ghar row, has accused the BJP Government of "insulting freedom fighters" by trying to prove that the disputed structure was actually a 'tiffin room'.

"In 2022, then-speaker Ram Niwas Goel discovered that in one corner of this building, there was a Phansi Ghar where freedom fighters were hanged. He called me, as I was the chief minister, and said that 'we should open it for tourists'.

"I inaugurated it, but since the BJP came to power, they have been trying to prove that it was not a Phansi Ghar but a 'tiffin room'. I believe there could be no greater insult to freedom fighters than this," ...