From SAD To TDP, Parties Attending New Parliament Building Inauguration

Updated: Friday, May 26, 2023, 9:52 [IST]

The inauguration of the new Parliament building on 28 May by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stirred a political row between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition parties.

The Parliament inauguration ceremony, which was supposed to be a momentous occasion as India embraces the idea of 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat', by shedding another symbol of British colonialism has been reduced to a mere tool for political propaganda, with the opposition boycotting the event.

From SAD To TDP, Parties Attending New Parliament Building Inauguration

The opposition has demanded that President Draupadi Murmu should be inaugurating the new parliament building, the highest law-making body in the land. They have also raised objections to the government's choice of date which is also the birth anniversary of Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar.

However, the National Democratic Alliance has countered the opposition's decision to boycott the event saying it is a blatant affront to the democratic ethos and constitutional values of our great nation.

"This recent boycott is just another feather in their cap of disregard for democratic processes. Such flagrant disrespect towards this institution betrays not only intellectual bankruptcy but a disturbing contempt for the very essence of democracy. Regrettably, this is not the first instance of such disdain," the BJP-led NDA said in a joint statement.