The Sengol

The Sengol was however housed at Allahabad Museum as 'Nehru's Golden walking stick' for seventy years until it was moved to its present location upon the building's inauguration by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2023.

[2][3][1] On such an occasion on 14 August 1947, emissaries from the Thiruvaduthurai Adheenam Matha, a Shaivite monastery in the erstwhile Tanjore district of Madras Presidency (nowadays Tamil Nadu), presented Nehru with the Sengol at his home.

He also gave Nehru some cooked rice which had been offered that very morning to the dancing god Nataraja in south India, then flown by plane to Delhi.

[5] At the inauguration, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was accompanied by Hindu priests heading the 20 Adheenams in Tamil Nadu, installed the Sengol near the chair of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.

In 2023, The New York Times noted that this sceptre emerged as a key object encapsulating the meaning of the new Parliament, that is, "to shed not just the remnants of India's colonial past, but also increasingly to replace the secular governance that followed it".