President, Not PM, Should Inaugurate New Parliament Building: Rahul Gandhi

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that the President should inaugurate the new Parliament building and not the prime minister. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the newly-constructed Parliament building on May 28.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla met PM Modi on Thursday last and extended an invitation to inaugurate the new building, the Lok Sabha Secretariat had said. Taking to Twitter, Mr Gandhi said, “The President should inaugurate the new Parliament House 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 country’s founding fathers.