Srinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the new Parliament building on Sunday (May 28). The Congress and several opposition parties are boycotting the event. Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has now sharply criticized this attitude of the opposition parties. 

"I don't understand why opposition parties are shouting when they should be happy that the country is getting a new Parliament." Had I been in Delhi, I would have attended the inauguration of the new Parliament building. The opposition should praise the central government for creating a new Parliament in record time, while they are criticizing the government. I am strongly against the opposition boycotting it.  

Azad further said that when he was the Union Parliamentary Minister in the (Azad) Narasimha Rao government, he dreamt of building a new Parliament. "I had discussed with the then PRIME Minister Narasimha Rao about the formation of a new Parliament, not only did I make a map, but at that time we could not make a new Parliament. Azad said that after the independence of the country, the population of the country has increased by 5 times, accordingly the number of representatives has also increased." Ghulam Nabi Azad said, "Therefore, a new Parliament building had to be built."

Ghulam Nabi Azad said, "I am against the unnecessary controversy being raised on the inauguration of the new Parliament. The opposition has no dearth of issues, yet they are raising the wrong issues. And if the opposition loved the president so much, why did it field a candidate against him?" 

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