‘PM Modi’s arrogance deprived President Murmu of his constitutional privilege’: Congress on inauguration of new parliament

New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday stepped up its attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the inauguration of the new Parliament building, saying “a man’s arrogance and desire for self-promotion” has made the first tribal woman president to criticize his decision to inaugurate the Parliament building. deprived of constitutional privilege. Complex. The Congress attack came a day after 20 opposition parties announced their decision to boycott the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Modi. Nineteen opposition parties, including the Congress, the Left, the TMC, the SP and the AAP, came together to jointly announce a boycott, saying they found no value in a new building when the “soul of democracy has been sucked out”. . Separately, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said that if Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla does not inaugurate the new parliament building, his party will not attend it.

In a tweet, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said, “Yesterday, President Draupadi Murmu inaugurated the country’s largest judicial complex at the Jharkhand High Court Complex in Ranchi. It is the arrogance and desire of self-promotion of a man who made the first tribal woman has been denied.” It is the constitutional prerogative of the President to inaugurate the new Parliament House in New Delhi on May 28.” “Great Ashoka, great Akbar, inaugurate Modi,” Ramesh said.

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Following the opposition’s call for a boycott, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance had also hit back, calling the opposition’s stand a “blatant insult to the democratic ethos and constitutional values ​​of our great nation”.

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In their joint statement, 19 opposition parties said that the decision by Prime Minister Modi to inaugurate the new Parliament House, “completely sidelining President Draupadi Murmu, is not only a grave insult but a direct attack on our democracy, which demands a similar response”.