Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiling the plaque to lay the foundation stone of the New Parliament Building as Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines, Pralhad Joshi looks on, at Sansad Marg in New Delhi.

Congress boycotts new Parliament stone-laying event

The Congress on Thursday boycotted the muse stone-laying ceremony of the brand new Parliament constructing, criticizing the occasion at a time farmers have been camped outdoors Delhi in protest towards the Centre’s new agriculture legal guidelines.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi carried out the groundbreaking ceremony for the brand new constructing, which is predicted to be accomplished by the 75th anniversary of India’s independence and is estimated to value Rs 971 crore.

No one from the Congress attended the groundbreaking ceremony – carried out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi within the presence of high politicians, industrialists and overseas envoys — a celebration functionary mentioned.

The functionary mentioned Leader of the Opposition within the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and Congress chief within the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury have been each invited to the operate however didn’t attend.

Congress’s chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala mentioned historical past would file that when farmers have been preventing for his or her rights by protesting on the streets, Prime Minister Modi was busy laying the muse stone of the brand new Parliament.

“Dear PM, Parliament is not mortar and stones. It envisions democracy. It imbibes Constitution. It is economic-political-social equality. It is compassion and camaraderie. It is the aspirations of 130 crore Indians. What would a building built upon trampling of these values represent?” he tweeted.

Surjewala mentioned in a democracy, energy didn’t imply fulfilling one’s whims and fancies, however serving the individuals and public curiosity. “Mr Modi, history will also record that when the ‘Annadata’ (food grower) was fighting for his rights for 16 days on the streets, you were building a palace for yourself in the name of Central Vista. In democracy, power is not a means to fulfil your whims, but is a medium for public service and public welfare,” he mentioned in one other tweet in Hindi.

Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh mentioned the prevailing Parliament constructing “bears a remarkable similarity to the Chausath Yogini Temple in Morena in Madhya Pradesh, while the new Parliament bears a likeness to Pentagon in US”.

Former finance minister P Chidambaram mentioned, “The foundation for a new Parliament building was laid on the ruins of a liberal democracy.”

Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill mentioned the choice to construct the brand new constructing was “heartless, senseless and shameless”.

“At a time when the nation is going through economic recession, the BJP instead of giving any concession is taking out an ‘extravaganza procession,” he mentioned.

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