RJD Compares New Parliament To Coffin, Draws Flak

All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday slammed the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) for its comparison of the new Parliament building with a coffin.

Owaisi also said that it would have been better if the new building was inaugurated by the Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla and not Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"RJD has no stand, sometimes they speak about secularism and make Nitish Kumar, who came out of BJP, their chief minister. The old Parliament building did not even have clearance from Delhi Fire Service. Why are they (RJD) calling the Parliament a coffin? They could have said anything else, why do they need to bring this angle?," said AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi while talking to ANI.

BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla termed RJD's tweet disgusting, while Gaurav Bhatia said the coffin belongs to the RJD and the Parliament of the country.

"This is the level to which they have fallen. Disgusting. This will prove to be the final nail in the coffin of RJD's politics. Trikon or Tribhuj (triangles) has much significance in the Indian system. By the way, the coffin is hexagonal or has six-sided polygons," Poonawalla said on Twitter.

However, justifying the RJD's tweet, its Bihar unit spokesperson Mrityunjay Tiwary told PTI, "The way the new Parliament building was inaugurated today, it showed that democracy was buried. Neither the President nor the Vice President, who is the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, were invited to the function. This does not happen in a democracy."

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JDU and RJD had already announced that they would boycott the inaugural function of the new Parliament building.