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By New Worker correspondent
London’s iconic India Club has been
saved from redevelopment after Westminster council refused planning permission
to developers who would have swept the iconic restaurant away to make way for
an upmarket hotel.
This
week Westminster Council’s planning committee said that the India Club, based
in a hotel in the Strand, was an important cultural and night-time venue.
Although
no longer a club, the restaurant and bar is still frequented by Indian
diplomats, students and journalists. For over 50 years it has been based in the
Strand and the club has many loyal supporters. Some 26,000 of them signed a
petition to save the club.
The
club, which has been a frequent venue for comrades over the years, was started
by Krishna Menon, the left-wing Congress leader who was India's first High
Commissioner to Britain after independence in 1947. It served as a meeting
place for the India League, a British organisation that campaigned for India’s
independence, for their post-independence meetings and activities.
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