Last Update: May 21, 2023, 2:42 PM IST
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at a restaurant in Bengaluru on Sunday, May 7, 2023. (PTI photo)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the newly constructed Parliament House on May 28.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that the new Parliament building should be inaugurated by the President and not the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the newly constructed Parliament House on 28 May.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat had said that Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla had met Modi last Thursday and extended an invitation to inaugurate the new building.
Taking to Twitter, Gandhi said, “The President should inaugurate the new Parliament building and not the Prime Minister.”
The inauguration of the new Parliament building on May 28 coincides with the birth anniversary of Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar and several opposition parties have targeted the government over it.
The Congress has called it a ‘complete insult’ to the founders of the country.
According to the Lok Sabha Secretariat, the new Parliament House can comfortably accommodate 888 members in the Lok Sabha Chamber and 300 members in the Rajya Sabha Chamber.
In the event of a joint sitting of both the Houses, a total of 1,280 members can be accommodated in the Lok Sabha chamber.
The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of the new Parliament House on 10 December 2020.
The present Parliament House was completed in 1927.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI,