Final Up to date: Could 24, 2023, 15:22 IST
PM Modi will inaugurate the brand new Parliament constructing on Could 28 following an invite by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
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His remarks got here after 19 opposition events, together with the Congress, Left, AAP and TMC, introduced their choice to boycott the inauguration of the brand new Parliament complicated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying they discover no worth in a brand new constructing when the soul of democracy has been sucked out of Parliament
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday mentioned neither getting President Droupadi Murmu to inaugurate the brand new Parliament constructing nor inviting her to the ceremony is an ”insult” to the nation’s highest constitutional submit. The previous Congress president additionally mentioned Parliament is just not constructed by ”bricks of ego” however by means of constitutional values.
His remarks got here after 19 opposition events, together with the Congress, Left, AAP and TMC, introduced their choice to boycott the inauguration of the brand new Parliament complicated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying they discover no worth in a brand new constructing when the soul of democracy has been sucked out of Parliament.
In a tweet in Hindi, Gandhi mentioned,”neither getting the President to inaugurate the Parliament nor inviting her to the ceremony is an insult to the nation’s highest constitutional submit.” ”Parliament is just not constructed by bricks of ego, however by means of constitutional values,” Gandhi mentioned.
Modi will inaugurate the brand new Parliament constructing on Could 28 following an invite by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
The opposition events have mentioned the President is just not solely the Head of State in India, but additionally an integral a part of Parliament as she summons, prorogues, and addresses it. Due to this fact, they’ve argued that the President ought to inaugurate the constructing and never the PM.
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