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Union Home Minister, Amit Shah has stated that the inauguration of the Parliament constructing shouldn’t be politicised. He stated that it’s an emotional second in historical past and a course of to attach new India with outdated traditions.
“We mustn’t politicise this (inauguration of recent Parliament constructing) concern, let individuals assume and react nonetheless they need to,” Shah stated at a press convention.
His remarks got here amidst the boycott name by 19 Opposition events. These events have maintained that the President ought to inaugurate the constructing and never the Prime Minister.
The assertion by the Opposition events criticised the Centre and identified that the Prime Minister’s choice to inaugurate the constructing by utterly sidelining the President of India isn’t just a grave insult by a direct assault on democracy.
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The members of the National Democratic Alliance will attend the inaugural to be held on May 28.
Union Minister, Hardeep Singh Puri reminded hat the inauguration of the Parliament annex and library had been carried out by prime ministers of the Congress, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
“In August 1975, then PM Indira Gandhi inaugurated the Parliament annexe, and later in 1987 PM Rajiv Gandhi inaugurated the Parliament library. If your (Congress) head of presidency can inaugurate them, why cannot our head of presidency do the identical,” he stated.
Story first revealed: Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 14:50 [IST]
