AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday hit out at Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) for its comparison of the new Parliament building with a coffin questioning the need of the Bihar-based party for bringing in "this angle".
“It would have been better if Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla inaugurated the new Parliament House. RJD has no stand, the old Parliament building did not even have clearance from Delhi Fire Service. Why are they (RJD) calling the Parliament a coffin? They could have said anything else, why do they need to bring this angle?” Owaisi told ANI.
He also said that it would have been better if the new building was inaugurated by the Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla and not Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ANI reported.
Earlier today, the RJD posted a photo of a coffin and asked 'Yeh kya hai (What is this?) in Hindi. Taking to Twitter, the RJD today shared a photo of a coffin and asked 'Yeh kya hai (What is this?) in Hindi.
RJD's Shakti Yadav's later explained said that the coffin in the party's tweet was a representation of "democracy being buried."
Speaking about the new Parliament inauguration, the AIMIM chief stated that it would have been better if Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla inaugurated it.
"It would have been better if Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla inaugurated the new Parliament House. But the PM wants to show that he is doing everything and nobody else can do it. As if nothing happened in India before 2014, and everything is happening now. It's the PM's way of individual promotion," he added.
As many as 20 political parties boycotted the opening of the new Parliament building stating that the inauguration of the building without President Droupadi Murmu "insults the high office of the President, and violates the letter and spirit of the Constitution".
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