Gandhi Hall, also known as Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Trust, is a building in downtown

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, Myanmar, on the Merchant Street corner of Bo Aung Kyaw Road. It was first used as the office of '' The Rangoon Times'', one of the English-language newspapers in

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. Later, in 1951, it was bought by Prime Minister

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and Indian ambassador M. A. Rauf for the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Trust. The building is also part of the political history of Myanmar, as it was used for a gathering of elected representatives of the 1990 Myanmar election, who issued the Gandhi Hall Declaration in July 1990.

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