Read reason behind RJD DMK and all boycott new parliament building
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Janata Dal (United), and Dravida Munetra Kazhagam (DMK) joined the boycott of the inauguration of the new Parliament building on Wednesday, arguing that the President, not the PM, should be the one to do so.
Parties against new Parliament building inauguration:
19 opposition parties have united against the Centre on the inauguration event and issued a joint statement expressing their displeasure with PM Modi’s intention to inaugurate the new Parliament building by himself, ‘totally sidelining President Droupadi Murmu’. They argued that the decision is “not only a grave insult but a direct assault on our democracy.”
“We have chosen to boycott the official opening of the new Parliament Building… “It is an insult to her that we are not asking the President to inaugurate the building,” RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav told reporters.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC), Communist Party of India (CPI), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and CPI(Marxist) declared on Tuesday that they would not attend the inauguration ceremony.
“Parliament is more than just a new structure; it is an institution with long-standing traditions, values, precedents, and rules; it is the bedrock of Indian democracy.” Prime Minister Modi does not understand this. For him, the new building’s inauguration on Sunday is all about I, ME, MYSELF. “Count us out,” TMC MP Derek O’Brien tweeted.
Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri denies the claims:
Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri overlooked claims that the President would inaugurate the new Parliament building, recalling the dedication of the Parliament annexe and library by then-prime ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
“The Parliament annexe was inaugurated in August 1975 by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and the Parliament library was inaugurated in 1987 by then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.” “If your (Congress’s) head of government can inaugurate them, why can’t our head of government?” he asked.
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