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“Soul Of Democracy Sucked Out”: Opposition To Boycott Parliament Opening
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“Soul Of Democracy Sucked Out”: Opposition To Boycott Parliament Opening

The opposition parties have denounced plans by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate the new parliament building, instead of President Droupadi Murmu.

India NewsEdited by Divyanshu Dutta RoyUpdated: May 24, 2023 12:25 pm IST

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PM Modi is set to inaugurate the new parliament building on Sunday.

New Delhi: The inauguration of India’s new parliament in New Delhi on Sunday may resemble an event in Beijing with nearly zero representation from the opposition, as 19 parties announced they will not be attending the ceremony.

Here is your 10-point guide to this story:
1. The Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Trinamool Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the Left, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Janata Dal-United (JDU), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Samajwadi Party, Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena faction and others said on Wednesday that they will not be part of the event.
2. The opposition parties have denounced plans by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate the new parliament, instead of President Droupadi Murmu, to make a political statement ahead of next year’s national election.
3. Some of them have also criticised scheduling the event on the birth anniversary of VD Savarkar, the Hindutva ideologue who shared views radically divergent from Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation, and had pledged lifelong fealty to the British after prolonged incarceration.
4. “Prime Minister Modi’s decision to inaugurate the new parliament building by himself, completely sidelining President Murmu, is not only a grave insult but a direct assault on our democracy… This undignified act insults the high office of the President and violates the letter and spirit of the constitution. It undermines the spirit of inclusion which saw the nation celebrate its first woman Adivasi President,” the opposition parties said in a statement.
5. “Undemocratic acts are not new to the Prime Minister, who has relentlessly hollowed out the Parliament. Opposition Members of Parliament have been disqualified, suspended and muted when they raised the issues of the people of India… When the soul of democracy has been sucked out from the parliament, we find no value in a new building,” they added.
6. Addressing a news briefing, Union Home Minister Amit Shah declined to comment on the backlash but said, “We have invited everyone. They can decide according to their wisdom.” Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi urged opposition parties to reconsider their decision to boycott the ceremony.
7. Earlier, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday accused the Congress of lacking “national spirit and sense of pride” in India’s progress. He said former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had inaugurated the Parliament Annexe building on October 24, 1975, and successor Rajiv Gandhi had laid the foundation of the parliament library on August 15, 1987. “If your head of government can inaugurate the Parliament annexe and library, then why can’t the head of the government of this time do? It’s as simple as that,” he said.
8. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh countered: “SUV-Self-Usurped Vishwaguru-has already annexe-d the Parliament for self-aggrandisement. But surely, there is a fundamental difference between inaugurating an Annexe where officials work and a library which is hardly used on the one hand, and inaugurating not just the Temple of Democracy but its sanctum sanctorum itself.”
9. From its cost to the uncharacteristic fierceness of the lions in the national emblem atop the building, the construction of the new parliament – announced in 2020 at the height of the coronavirus pandemic – has found itself tangled in controversy.
10. The government has said India’s current parliament building was built under British rule in 1927 and has grown too small. Laying the foundation stone of the new building in December 2020, PM Modi has said it would be an intrinsic part of a “self-reliant India”. It will accommodate 888 members in the lower house and 300 members in the upper house, as compared to the current 543 and 250, respectively, and is part of the Modi government’s plan to redevelop the historical heart of New Delhi called the Central Vista.
May 24, 2023
US President asks for PM Modi’s autograph, praises him a lot

New Delhi: US President Joe Biden has also become a fan of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Quad countries meeting was held in Hiroshima, Japan. In this meeting, US President Joe Biden has praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi a lot. Biden praised PM Modi fiercely and said that you have a lot of popularity in America. He told PM Modi that I want your autograph. An occasion also came during the Quad conference when US President Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese complained to PM Modi about his strange challenge.
After this, the Australian Prime Minister Albanese said that the capacity of PM Modi’s reception venue to be held in Sydney is 20 thousand people and that too is falling short, but despite that, he is getting requests continuously, which he is unable to fulfill. Not possible for. Prime Minister Albanese recalled the time when more than 90,000 people welcomed him at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Gujarat. On this, Joe Biden told PM Modi that I should take your autograph.

May 21, 2023
PM Modi congratulates Congress for the victory in Karnataka

New Delhi (IANS) | Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated the Congress for the victory in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections. Along with this, while appreciating the BJP workers for their hard work in the assembly elections, he has also said that in the coming times, BJP will serve Karnataka with more enthusiasm.

Congratulating the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, “Congratulations to the Congress party for the victory in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections. My best wishes for fulfilling the aspirations of the people.

Thanking the people who supported us in the elections, Prime Minister Modi said in the next tweet, I thank all those who supported us in the Karnataka elections. I appreciate the hard work of BJP workers. We look forward to serving Karnataka with even greater enthusiasm in the times to come.

–IANS

May 13, 2023
PM Modi to chair meeting to review situation of stranded Indians in Sudan

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a high-level meeting to review the situation of stranded Indians in violence-hit Sudan. Sources gave this information. In view of the current situation in Sudan, the Ministry of External Affairs of India is constantly making efforts at various levels to ensure the safety of Indians stranded there.
According to sources, in this high-level meeting, the Prime Minister will review the situation in Sudan and all the steps being taken to ensure the safety of Indians. Actually, India is ready to evacuate its citizens from Sudan safely, but there is no word about this. The decision will be taken only after looking at the local situation and talking to the Indians trapped there.
31 Indian nationals belonging to Karnataka are currently stranded in Sudan. On April 15, Sudan awoke to the sound of explosions and gunfire, the culmination of a weeks-long power struggle between two generals who will seize power in the country in 2021 following a military coup.
The two generals – Abdel Fattah al-Burhan who heads Sudan’s army and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) – are former allies.
The two joined forces and worked together to topple former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in 2019 and played a key role in the 2021 military coup.
However, talks to integrate the RSF into Sudan’s military as part of a plan to restore civilian rule in the country turned hostile over who would command whom in the new regime.
–IANS

April 21, 2023