‘It would have been better if everyone was involved’: Sharad Pawar on inauguration of new Parliament building

New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said he was “not happy” to see the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said it “would have been better” if everyone had attended. Around 20 opposition parties, including the NCP, on Sunday boycotted the inauguration ceremony of the new Parliament building, alleging that President Draupadi Murmu was denied the right to inaugurate the building.

“I saw the program in the morning. I am glad I did not go there,” Sharad Pawar told reporters in Pune. ‘Taken back’. The grand opening this morning included a havan, a multi-faith prayer ceremony and the installation of Sengol in a special enclosure in the Lok Sabha chamber.

The former Union Minister said that the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had envisaged a society with a scientific mind, but the rituals performed during the inauguration of the new Parliament complex were contrary to his thinking.

He said, “No one can compromise with science. Nehru was firm in his desire to build a society with a scientific temper. But what is happening today at the inauguration ceremony of the new Parliament building is exactly the opposite of Nehru’s vision.” Is.”

Pawar also expressed disappointment over the absence of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker at 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 the event,” he said.

Sharad Pawar also claimed that nothing was discussed with him about this new building.

“It would have been better if everyone had been involved,” he said.

PM Modi treated new inauguration of Parliament as his ‘coronation’: Opposition

The opposition on Sunday accused Prime Minister Modi of treating the inauguration of the new Parliament building as his “coronation” and said democracy is run by people, not buildings.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi soon after PM Modi inaugurated the building, “Parliament is the voice of the people! The Prime Minister is treating the inauguration of the Parliament House as (a) coronation.”

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said that democracy does not run on buildings but on the voice of the people.

The Left parties also compared the inauguration of the Parliament House to the coronation of an emperor by calling the people of the country as ‘Praja’. CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury alleged that the inauguration ceremony was held amid ‘vigorous propaganda’ with the announcement of ‘New India’.

He said, “This announcement of New India takes place in the absence of the President of India, the Vice President of India and the opposition parties! India = Nation and Citizens; New India = Raja and Praja.”