Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday accused the union government for ‘demeaning’ the position of the President by not inviting her to the inaugural ceremony of new parliament building and announced that he will not attend the function slated to
be held on May 28.
In a statement issued here today, Mr Mann said that whenever the new session of parliament is called every MP is invited by the President of India to attend the session.
‘However it is ironic that the constitutional head of the government has not even been invited to the function to mark the inauguration of the new Parliament building’, he said.
Mr Mann termed it ‘Mockery of the Constitution’ which was totally unwarranted and undesirable.
He said that his conscience doesn’t allow him to attend any such event where the power-mad government has not even bothered to invite the constitutional head of the country.
‘Therefore, we will boycott this event and will not attend it as a mark of protest against the high handedness of the BJP and its allies’, he said.
