New Parliament Inauguration: 19 parties boycott, Former PM HD Deve Gowda to attend

Nineteen opposition parties, including the Congress and Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party, said Wednesday morning they intend to boycott the inauguration of the new Parliament building in Delhi this weekend and criticised an ‘authoritarian prime minister and his government’. New Parliament inauguration: 19 parties boycott, Former PM HD Deve Gowda to attend.

When the soul of democracy has been sucked out Parliament, we find no value in a new building. We announce our collective decision to boycott the inauguration of the new Parliament building.

We will continue to fight in letter, in spirit, and in substance against this authoritarian Prime Minister and his government, and take our message directly to the people of India.”

The opposition parties said that despite differences with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party they had been open to ‘sinking our differences and marking this occasion’

But said ‘prime minister Narendra Modi’s decision to inaugurate the Parliament building by himself, completely side lining president (Droupadi) Murmu, is not only a grave insult but a direct assault on our democracy…”

Amid a boycott call by the opposition parties, former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda on Thursday said that he will attend the inauguration ceremony of the new Parliament building on May 28.

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“I am attending the inauguration of the new building of Parliament. It is the property of the country,” Deve Gowda said. The Janata Dal (Secular) leader, who had come to participate in the party’s introspection meeting said that it is not anyone’s personal program but of the whole country.

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