The government and BJP have consistently undermined Parliament January 18, 2021, 4:21 PM IST
Abhishek Singhvi is an MP and senior national spokesperson, Congress. Jaiveer Shergill is an advocate and national spokesperson, Congress.
While deprecating the separation of “a place from its history”, novelist Alan Moore rightly said: “A place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it’s more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.” With the apex court giving its stamp of approval to the Rs 2,000 crore Central Vista project it includes a glittering new Parliament to be built at a cost of Rs 971 crore an analysis of the Narendra Modi government’s track record on respecting Parliament’s soul and substance is relevant. Has the BJP and the Modi government imbibed the true spirit of our temple of democracy or have they treated it as a necessary evil, to be formally bowed down