Jagdeep Dhankhar: A day before the start of the House’s special session, Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar raised the flag of the country at the new Parliament building on Sunday. The flag-raising event was held the day before Monday’s five-day session of Parliament, during which parliamentary functions may move from the old to the new Parliament building.
Flag Hoisting Ceremony at New Parliament Building
On “Gaja Dwar” of the new Parliament building, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially opened on May 28, Dhankhar raised the flag. The new building is located next to the former Parliament building.Those in attendance at the flag-raising event at the new Parliament building were Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, Union Ministers V Muraleedharan, Piyush Goyal, and Arjun Ram Meghwal, as well as Congress MPs Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Pramod Tiwari. Mallikarjun Kharge, president of the Congress and leader of the opposition in the upper house, was not there for the ceremony to hoist the flag. He expressed unhappiness at receiving the invitation so late and decided to forgo the event while in Hyderabad for the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting. Kharge claimed in a letter he sent on Saturday to Rajya Sabha Secretary General PC Mody that he didn’t receive the invitation till late on September 15 in the evening.
Mallikarjun Kharge Expresses Disappointment Over Late Invitation
“I am writing this letter with a sense of disappointment that I have received your invite for a flag hoisting function tomorrow at the new Parliament Building only on September 15, quite late in the evening,” the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha said in his letter. The Congress head announced that he will travel back to Delhi late on Sunday night from Hyderabad, where he is currently attending sessions of the newly formed CWC. “It will not be feasible for me to attend the function scheduled for tomorrow morning,” Kharge said. In preparation for the special session of Parliament, the government will hold its normal all-party meeting later today.
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