If Monday (September 18), the last working day of the old Parliament building — now rechristened “Samvidhan Sadan” — was about nostalgia and memories, Tuesday (September 19) brought with it all the excitement of a new school term in the new Parliament building.
Members of Parliament took time to look around as they entered the building and their respective Houses, clicking selfies and exploring the jazzy new computers at each desk.
In fact, the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhineeyum or the Women’s Reservation Bill was circulated online before its introduction, when the Opposition raised the point that they had not received a copy of the Bill. BJP MP Nishikant Dubey hurried over to the Opposition benches to help them access the online copy, after which their objection was to the specific features of the Bill, and the fact that a decadal census and the delimitation of new seats will have to take place before the reservations can become operational.
