The Congress led Opposition parties in lambasting May 28 inauguration of the new Parliament building, likening it to a “coronation”, and a “self-glorifying” event conducted with utter disdain for the scientific temper. In protest over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to inaugurate the new building himself, without even inviting President Droupadi Murmu, 22 Opposition parties boycotted the event.
Mr. Modi inaugurated the new structure amid Vedic chants, and installed the Sengol — a historic sceptre which had been handed over to India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1947 — in the new Lok Sabha chamber.
