22 May,2023 04:18 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
Delhi Ministers and AAP leaders Atishi Marlena and Saurabh Bhardwaj with part MPs Sanjay Singh and Sandeep Pathaka address a press conference, in New Delhi, Monday, May 22, 2023. PTI Photo
The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday said that not inviting the President Droupadi Murmu to inaugurate the new parliament building is an "insult" to the President as well as the tribal communities of the country.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, party leader and Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament Sanjay Singh said that it reflects the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) "anti-tribal, anti-Dalit and anti-backward mindset".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the newly-constructed Parliament building on May 28.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla met the prime minister last Thursday and extended an invitation to him to inaugurate the new Parliament building, according to the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
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Lashing out at the BJP, Singh said, "You make a tribal woman the president of India for political gains, but do not invite her to inaugurate the new Parliament building."
"Could there be a bigger insult to a president than this?" the national spokesperson of the AAP asked.
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That a tribal woman occupying the highest constitutional post of the president is not being called to inaugurate the new Parliament building is also an insult to the "tribal, Dalit, backward, deprived and under-privileged" sections of the country, Singh said.