New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday claimed that the decision to shift statues within the Parliament complex was taken "unilaterally" by the ruling dispensation and its sole purpose was not to place the statues of Mahatma Gandhi and BR Ambedkar there which are traditional places of democratic sites. Have been the venue. Protest right next to where Parliament actually meets.
The attack by the opposition party came before Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar inaugurated the 'Prerna Sthal', which will house all the statues of freedom fighters and other leaders that were earlier placed at various places in the Parliament complex.
While the Congress has criticized the decision to remove the statues from their current location, the Lok Sabha Secretariat has said that keeping them at different locations has made it difficult for visitors to see them properly.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said that according to the Lok Sabha website, the last meeting of Parliament's Committee on Portraits and Statues was held on December 18, 2018 and it was not even reconstituted during the 17th Lok Sabha (2019-2024), which constituted the first Had also worked at a bar.Without the constitutional post of Deputy Speaker.
"Today, a major reconstruction of the statues is being inaugurated in the Parliament complex. This is clearly a decision taken unilaterally by the ruling regime," he said.
Ramesh said in a post on "
He said, thus the statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been displaced not just once but in fact twice.
Ramesh said that Ambedkar Jayanti celebrations would not have the same scale and significance in the Parliament complex as his statue no longer holds a special place.The Lok Sabha Secretariat has said that the 'Prerna Sthal' has been created so that dignitaries and other visitors to the Parliament House complex can easily see and pay homage to these statues at one place.
"An action plan has been drawn up to bring the life stories and messages of these great Indians to the visitors through new technology," it said.
The Congress has claimed that the idea behind shifting the statues of Mahatma Gandhi, BR Ambedkar and Chhatrapati Shivaji, among others, is to ensure that they are not in any prominent place where MPs can hold peaceful and democratic protests.
The attack by the opposition party came before Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar inaugurated the 'Prerna Sthal', which will house all the statues of freedom fighters and other leaders that were earlier placed at various places in the Parliament complex.
While the Congress has criticized the decision to remove the statues from their current location, the Lok Sabha Secretariat has said that keeping them at different locations has made it difficult for visitors to see them properly.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said that according to the Lok Sabha website, the last meeting of Parliament's Committee on Portraits and Statues was held on December 18, 2018 and it was not even reconstituted during the 17th Lok Sabha (2019-2024), which constituted the first Had also worked at a bar.Without the constitutional post of Deputy Speaker.
"Today, a major reconstruction of the statues is being inaugurated in the Parliament complex. This is clearly a decision taken unilaterally by the ruling regime," he said.
Ramesh said in a post on "
He said, thus the statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been displaced not just once but in fact twice.
Ramesh said that Ambedkar Jayanti celebrations would not have the same scale and significance in the Parliament complex as his statue no longer holds a special place.The Lok Sabha Secretariat has said that the 'Prerna Sthal' has been created so that dignitaries and other visitors to the Parliament House complex can easily see and pay homage to these statues at one place.
"An action plan has been drawn up to bring the life stories and messages of these great Indians to the visitors through new technology," it said.
The Congress has claimed that the idea behind shifting the statues of Mahatma Gandhi, BR Ambedkar and Chhatrapati Shivaji, among others, is to ensure that they are not in any prominent place where MPs can hold peaceful and democratic protests.
