New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday stated that he was ‘not glad’ to see the inauguration of the brand new Parliament constructing by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and stated that it might ‘have been higher’ if everybody was concerned. About 20 opposition events, together with the NCP, boycotted the brand new Parliament constructing inauguration occasion on Sunday, alleging that President Droupadi Murmu has been denied the proper to inaugurate the constructing.
“I saw the event in the morning. I am happy I didn’t go there,” Sharad Pawar instructed reporters in Pune and stated that numerous non secular rituals carried out on the inauguration of the brand new Parliament constructing by PM Modi present that the nation was being ‘taken backward’. The grand inauguration this morning included a havan, a multi-faith prayer ceremony and the set up of the Sengol in a particular enclosure within the Lok Sabha chamber.
The former Union Minister stated the nation’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had envisaged a society having a scientific temperament, however the rituals performed throughout the opening of the brand new Parliament advanced had been opposite to his imaginative and prescient.Â
“One cannot compromise on science. Nehru was persistent about his wish to form a society with a scientific temperament. But what is happening today at the inaugural ceremony of the new Parliament building is exactly the opposite of what Nehru had envisaged,” he stated.Â
Pawar additionally expressed his disappointment over the absence of the president and the vp on the inauguration ceremony.
“The president is the head of the state, while the vice president is the head of the Rajya Sabha. They should have been invited to this event,” he stated.
Sharad Pawar additionally claimed that nothing was mentioned about this new constructing with them.
“It would have been better if everyone was involved,” he stated.
PM Modi handled new Parliament inauguration like his ‘coronation’: Opposition
The Opposition on Sunday accused Prime Minister Modi of treating the inauguration of the brand new Parliament constructing like his ‘coronation’, and stated democracy is run by folks, not by buildings.
“Parliament is the voice of the people! The prime minister is treating the inauguration of the Parliament House as (a) coronation,” Congress chief Rahul Gandhi stated in a tweet in Hindi quickly after PM Modi inaugurated the constructing.
Democracy doesn’t run from the buildings however via the voices of the folks, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge stated.
CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury alleged the inauguration ceremony was held amid ‘loud propaganda’ with the declaration of a ‘new India’.
“This declaration of a ‘New India’ comes in the absence of the President of India, Vice President of India and opposition parties! India = Nation and Citizen; New India = Raja and Praja,” he stated.
