New Parliament building was recommended during UPA: Tweeples remind Jairam Ramesh

March 31, 2023
BJP Congress India Politics

New Delhi: Tweeples called out Congress leader Jairam Ramesh after the latter called Prime Minister Modi a dictator on Thursday.

Prime Minister Modi visited the new Parliament building on Thursday evening. He spent more than an hour inspecting various works going on in the upcoming building. Reacting to this, Jairam Ramesh tweeted, “The first of the personal vanity projects. Every dictator wants to leave behind his architectural legacy. Colossal waste of money.”

However, after Jairam’s tweet, tweeples were quick to show him the mirror and remind him that the decision to have a new parliament building was based on the recommendation of the UPA time. A committee led by former Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar had decided in favor of the new parliament building.

Sharing the info, a tweeple wrote, “Another example of how Congress doesn’t respect the recommendation of Meira Kumar-led LS committee that decided in favor of the new parliament building. Earlier, they had a problem with OBCs, but now it seems they don’t want to respect their own SC leader’s decision and intellect as well. PM Modi led the Govt decided to continue the process started by the previous LS and implement a decision that was long overdue. Meanwhile, calling PM dictator is another addition in the series of abuses directed at PM!”

Another user shared an old newspaper report from 2012 in which Jairam himself had called the existing parliament building non-functional and outdated.

Sharing Jairam’s statement, the user wrote, “Dear Jairam Ramesh, any idea who said it in 2012 that ‘we need a new parliament building, the current one is outdated’? In 2023, a new parliament building becomes vanity, the legacy of dictatorship?”

One more user called out the Congress leader for calling the PM a dictator and wrote, “Are you delegitimizing Indian democracy by calling an elected PM a dictator?”

BJP MP from Rajasthan and Olympian, Col Rajyavardhan Rathore also tweeted that at the time of UPA, the construction cost of the new parliament building was estimated at ₹3000 crores however after the change in central government in 2014 the estimated cost of the new building came down to ₹971 crores only.

In a series of tweets LokSabha MP from Jaipur (Rural) said, “The proposal for a new parliament was accepted in 2012 during Sonia ji’s remote controlled UPA Govt. At that time there was a discussion that ₹ 3000 crores would be distributed in the name of this project. Commissioning was common during decades of Congress rule, so who knows in this too…? Is this the hesitation of the Congress today?”

“In 2014, an honest government came under the leadership of Modi ji and the estimated cost of the new parliament building came down to just ₹ 971 crores. Today, the country is considering the new Parliament and Central Vista as a symbol of people’s aspirations, then the Congress has gone berserk and is proving that it is pained by every pride and every happiness of the countrymen.

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