New Parliament row: The controversy across the new Parliament constructing appears to refuse to die down even after its inauguration. On Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi by tweeting a collage picture of two pictures- ‘After Independence,- displaying first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, first President Dr Rajendra Prasad and his different Cabine members together with Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar and ‘And Now’- that includes present Prime Minister Narendra Modi together with saints clicked on the new Parliament on the event of inauguration of the constructing. PM Modi stood within the center amongst dozens of Hindu sages. Union Ministers- Nirmala Sitharaman and Kishan Reddy are additionally seen within the body.
Decoding Banerjee’s image
Mamata may need tried to indicate that Nehru stored spiritual leaders away whereas clicking for the Parliament-related occasion as India is a secular nation. In distinction, PM Modi was clicked with the saints who symbolize the Hindu faith. Several Opposition leaders criticised PM Modi for holding spiritual rituals within the new Parliament.
‘Religious leaders had been invited however not president’
Earlier, TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee, who is taken into account because the successor of Mamata, on Sunday (May 28) stated that spiritual leaders and monks had been invited to the grand inauguration of the brand new Parliament constructing by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, however President of India Droupadi Murmu who’s the constitutional head of the nation was not.
The TMC nationwide common secretary questioned what was the position of non secular leaders within the Parliament.
“You can surely invite them when you visit a temple, but what role do the religious leaders have in the Parliament, they are not members,” the Trinamool Congress MP from Diamond Harbour constituency in West Bengal stated.
Addressing an impromptu press convention at Keshpur in West Midnapore district following a roadshow in Garbeta as a part of his ‘Nabajowar’ in TMC programme earlier than the panchayat polls in West Bengal, Banerjee claimed that the BJP was making an attempt to win the subsequent elections on the premise of faith.
“He (Prime Minister Modi) gave a slight teaser today on how he wants to run the country in future, that he wants to turn it into an autocracy from a democracy, it is a shameful and sad state of affairs,” Banerjee stated.
The TMC MP claimed that when the prime minister was speaking of ladies’s empowerment, agitating ladies wrestlers had been forcibly moved away from a protest they had been holding about two kilometres away from the brand new Parliament constructing. He claimed that the President of India was insulted by not being invited to the occasion.
Banerjee alleged that the Modi authorities was spending hundreds of crores of Rupees on constructions like Central Vista and new Parliament constructing, which he claimed had been avoidable bills, whereas “not releasing funds” for over 11 lakh folks in Bengal for his or her primary housing programmes below the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.
(With PTI inputs)
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