A day after the new Parliament building was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the front pages of prominent dailies swirled around both the fanfare and controversy associated with the event.
While the PM called it an “indelible signature of history”, he was accused of violating the Constitution by 20 opposition parties, who boycotted the event over the lack of an invite to president Droupadi Murmu. The inaugural ceremony also featured a prominence of Hindu religious symbolism with a large number of Hindu seers present and opposition leaders conspicuous by absence. It all came on a day when the Jantar Mantar protest site, where wrestlers had been protesting against BJP MP Brij Bhushan Singh, was cleared by the police as the protesters tried to march to the new Parliament complex.
