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New Delhi: The new Parliament building is likely to be inaugurated in March, when the House convenes for the second part of the Budget Session. Officials said work was going on in full swing on Parliament building and is expected to be completed by February. The second part of the Budget session is likely to be held in the new Parliament building, sources told Press Trust of India. The Budget session is conventionally held in two parts -- the first part usually commences on January 30 or 31 with the address of the President to the joint sitting of the two Houses. The Union Budget is tabled on February 1. The first part usually concludes on February 8 or 9. The second part of the session usually commences in the second week of January and continues till early May. Parliamentary sources said the part two of the session is likely to be held in the new Parliament building which has come up adjacent to the present structure. Last month, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had said construction work of the new Parliament building is going on at a very fast pace. The new Parliament building is part of the redevelopment of the Central Vista, the nation's power corridor. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone of the new Parliament building in December 2020. The new building, being constructed by Tata Projects Limited, will also have a grand Constitution Hall to showcase India's democratic heritage, a lounge for members of Parliament, a li...

Dignitaries attend the inaugural ceremony of the new Parliament building. Photo: Videograb: YouTube/SansadTV Every Indian is full of pride seeing the new Parliament House, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on May 28, PM Modi on Sunday unveiled the plaque to mark the inauguration of the the much-awaited new Parliament building. The Prime Minister also installed the sacred Stating that India is not only a democratic country but also the mother of democracy, Mr. Modi added that the new building will witness the rise of self-reliant India. He also released a special commemorative postage stamp and a ₹75 coin to mark the inauguration of the new Parliament building. During the inauguration ceremony, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh read out messages from President Droupadi Murmu and The ceremony began with a traditional ‘puja’ with Vedic rituals which lasted an hour. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla was also present with along with PM Modi during the puja. Earlier, declaring their intention to Follow live updates: After his party boycotted the inauguration of the new Parliament building, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said democracy is not just about buildings but functions with the voice of people. He also attacked the government over the “The right to inaugurate the new Parliament was snatched from the President. Women players were beaten up on the streets with dictatorial force,” he alleged in a tweet in Hindi. “The three lies of BJP-RSS rulers now stand expos...

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STRASBOURG — Senior MEPs including President Roberta Metsola narrowly voted in favor of a move that could entrench the European Parliament even more firmly in its Strasbourg home. Metsola convened her 14 vice presidents on Monday to decide on an offer from the French government, After months of dithering about purchasing the building, the Parliament has been considering a May 3 offer from Paris, in which the French government would buy the so-called Osmose building — a state-of-the-art block that boasts 15,000m² of space, not far from the Parliament’s hemicycle in Strasbourg — and then lease it to the Parliament. By It comes also as part of the French government’s effort to expand the EU Parliament’s footprint in the French city, which is the institution’s official home according to the EU’s treaties. According to three people with knowledge of the meeting, who were granted anonymity to speak about the closed-door talks, a block of seven MEPs from the center-right European People’s Party, centrist Renew and right-wing ECR groups thought the offer was too good to refuse. But a seven-strong alliance of Socialists, Greens and the Left rejected the offer, arguing there was no need for extra space. No formal vote or raising of hands was held but President Metsola and her allies’ positions meant there was a narrow majority in favor of accepting the deal. Heidi Hautala, the Greens’ vice president, wrote in a statement the Parliament “caved in” to political pressure from the Frenc...

The installation of a map in India’s Bangladesh’s foreign ministry on Monday sought an explanation from New Delhi over the Akhand Bharat, or Undivided India, map in the new parliament building, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi late last month. The map includes parts of Afghanistan, and the entire Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. The Bangladeshi embassy in the Indian capital has been instructed to contact India’s foreign ministry to get India’s official explanation on the matter, Bangladesh’s junior minister for foreign affairs, Shahriar Alam, told reporters in Dhaka. “Anger is being expressed from various quarters over the map. There is no reason to doubt … the installation of the map. However, we have asked our mission in New Delhi to speak to the Indian ministry of external affairs to find out what their official interpretation is,” Alam said. India’s foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said in a media briefing the mural depicts the spread of the ancient Mauryan Empire and “the idea of responsible and people-oriented governance that [King Ashoka] adopted and propagated”. However, during the inauguration of the new parliament building on May 28, India’s minister for parliamentary affairs as well as coal and mines, Pralhad Joshi, had described the mural as a map of the Akhand Bharat – a decades-old, right-wing fantasy that imagines an ethnic Hindu nation in the subcontinent. “The resolve is clear – Akhand Bharat,” says a translation o...

NEW DELHI, May 28 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India's new parliament building on Sunday, a modern complex which is part of his Hindu nationalist government's grand plan to give a makeover to the British colonial-era architecture in the nation's capital. The inauguration, and the ongoing revamp of the heart of New Delhi based on Indian culture, traditions, and symbols, comes a year before parliamentary elections in which Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will pitch its strong Hindu nationalist credentials, and its performance in office over the last decade, to seek a third term. Early in the morning, Modi held traditional prayers outside the complex in a ceremony that was also attended by top cabinet ministers. He then lit a traditional lamp inside parliament. Later, the prime minister entered parliament to loud cheers from guests, government officials and lawmakers, with many welcoming him with chant of "Modi, Modi". "This new complex will be evidence of self-reliant India," he said in an address. The event was boycotted by 20 opposition parties who said Modi had violated protocol to inaugurate the new complex and grab the spotlight when it should have been done by the president, the highest executive of the country. "To open a new parliament building without the opposition, it does not mean there is a democracy in the country. It's an incomplete event," Supriya Sule, an opposition leader, told news agency ANI. During the inauguration ceremony, a...

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