Mamata Banerjee on New Parliament Inauguration: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee taunted PM Modi over the inauguration of the new Parliament. TMC Chief shared two photos on Twitter on Monday (May 29). In which one photo has the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with his cabinet, on which it is written ‘after independence’ and the second photo is of the inauguration of the new building of Parliament. In this, PM Modi is standing with Adhyanam (priests) and Union ministers. ‘And now’ is written on this photo.
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) May 29, 2023
Prime Minister Modi inaugurated the new building of Parliament on Sunday (May 28). On this occasion Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, S. Jaishankar and Jitendra Singh, Chief Ministers of several states and Bharatiya Janata Party President JP Nadda were present. Many opposition parties including Congress, TMC had boycotted this ceremony. These parties demanded that the new building should be inaugurated by the President instead of the PM. Draupadi Murmu Who should do
TMC had said that on behalf of Prime Minister Modi new parliament building The inauguration of the Lok Sabha and the installation of the historic scepter Sengol in the Lok Sabha Chamber shows that during such an important occasion, the Prime Minister has a tendency to be in full limelight. Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member and national spokesperson Sukhendu Shekhar Roy had said that even conducting some religious rituals at the inauguration of the Parliament House is against the Preamble of the Indian Constitution which describes it as a secular, socialist and democratic republic.
At the same time, TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee had said that religious leaders and priests were invited for the grand inauguration of the new Parliament House, but the constitutional head of the country, President of India Draupadi Murmu, was not invited. You can certainly invite them when you visit a temple, but what is the role of religious leaders in the Parliament, they are not members.
