The 270 signatories to the letter include 88 retired bureaucrats (including 10 ambassadors), 100 retired armed forces officers and 82 academicians
As many as 270 eminent citizens have penned an open letter condemning the Congress-led boycott by opposition parties of the May 28 inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The 270 signatories to the letter include 88 retired bureaucrats (including 10 ambassadors), 100 retired armed forces officers and 82 academicians.
The opposition parties contend that President Droupadi Murmu should do the honours as she is not only the Head of State, but also an integral part of Parliament as she summons, prorogues, and addresses it.
“All Indians is self-explanatory. But, somehow, the opposition with its skeletal arguments, immature, whimsy and hollow reasoning, and most of all flagrant display of non-democratic posturing, just doesn’t get it!” starts the open letter.
“Those that are boycotting the inauguration of the Parliament by Prime Minister Narendra Modi just don’t get how they are the ones that are “sucking the soul of democracy”. They are following their own formulaic undemocratic, routine and baseless “boycotts”,” it further says.
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