'Complete insult': Congress opposes Parliament building inauguration on Savarkar birth anniversary

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to inaugurate the new Parliament building on May 28 which happens to be the birth anniversary of Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar several opposition parties on Friday targeted the government with the Congress calling it a complete insult to the countrys founding fathersSome opposition parties also asked why would the prime minister who is the head of the executive and not the legislature inaugurate itCongress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said on Twitter A complete insult to all our Founding Fathers and Mothers A total rejection of Gandhi Nehru Patel Bose et al A blatant repudiation of Dr Ambedkar He was responding to a tweet by TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray who tweeted 26 November 2023 Indian Constitution which gifted parliamentary democracy to the nation shall step into 75th year which wouldve been befitting for inauguration of new Sansad Bhawan But it shall be done on 28 May birthday of Savarkar How much relevantLok Sabha Speaker Om Birla met Modi on Thursday and extended an invitation to inaugurate the new building the Lok Sabha Secretariat said Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate the new Parliament building on 28th May 2023 which is also the 140th birth anniversary of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar the great son of India BJP IT department head Amit Malviya tweetedVeer Savarkar was born on 28th May 1883 in Bhagur The new Parliament is designed to last at least 150 years The current premise has been in existence for 100 years now he added RJD leader Manoj Kumar Jha said Shouldnt the honorable rashtrapatibhvnbe inaugurating the new Sansad Bhavan I leave it at thatJai HindAlso readMVA to set up committee to work out seatsharing formula says Congress leaderAIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi asked why should the prime minister inaugurate the Parliament building He is head of the executive not legislature We have separation of powers and Honble Lok Sabha Speaker and Rajya Sabha Chair could have inaugurated it Its made with public money why is PM behaving like his friends have sponsored it from their private funds Owaisi said on TwitterCongress whip in Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore reiterated the partys allegation that its members were not allowed to speak in Parliament and their microphones were switched off We need to understand that the Parliament is not just about bricks cement and steel It is also about the voices of people who are voiceless Its not about chairs space it is not about the facilities It is about the right of the opposition members to speak he saidWill the mikes be on in the new Parliament that is the question we have to ask We hope that the prime minister realises that Parliament is the temple of democracy and it means that we should allow the opposition to speak and the mikes should also be on Tagore said in a video message The new Parliament building can comfortably seat 888 members in the Lok Sabha chamber and 300 in the Rajya Sabha chamber according to the Lok Sabha SecretariatIn case of a joint sitting of both the Houses a total of 1280 members can be accommodated in the Lok Sabha chamber The prime minister had laid the foundation stone of the new Parliament building on December 10 2020 The present Parliament building was completed in 1927This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever