Nitish Kumar Joins Boycott Brigade, Calls New Parliament ‘an Attempt To Write New History’

Amid Opposition’s call for boycotting the inauguration of the new Parliament building, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday asserted that there is “no need” for a new Parliament building.

The new Parliament building is an attempt to write a new history by those who had no contribution in the freedom struggle, he told reporters here.

JD(U), of which he is a senior leader, has announced that it will boycott the inauguration of the new Parliament building on Sunday. The party will observe a day-long fast here on the day to protest the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“There is no need for a new Parliament building… Those who had no contribution to the country’s fight for independence are trying to distort history. It is quite surprising that the President of India and the Vice-President, who is the chairman of Rajya Sabha, have not been invited to the inauguration programme,” Kumar, who had been a cabinet minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee, told reporters here.

“JD(U) strongly holds that the president is an important part of the country’s parliamentary system. As the president, Droupadi Murmu holds the highest constitutional post in the country and she should have been invited by the Narendra Modi government to inaugurate the new Parliament. building,” the party’s state president Umesh Singh Kushwaha told reporters here on Saturday.