Ex-Bureaucrats, Veterans Slam Opposition's New Parliament Opening Boycott
NDTV
The signatories to the statement included 88 retired bureaucrats, 100 veterans and 82 academicians.
A group of 270 eminent citizens, including former bureaucrats, ambassadors and veterans, on Friday, condemned the Opposition for boycotting the new Parliament building inauguration and claimed the "family-first" parties have come together to boycott all that represents India.
While it is a proud occasion for all Indians but opposition parties with their "skeletal arguments, immature, whimsy and hollow reasoning, and most of all flagrant display of non-democratic posturing, just don't get it", they said in a statement.
A democratically elected prime minister of India who has inspired a billion Indians with his authenticity, inclusive policies, strategic vision, commitment to deliver and most of all, his Indianness is "unpalatable to the Congress and other opposition parties", they added.
The signatories to the statement included 88 retired bureaucrats, 100 veterans and 82 academicians. Former NIA director Y C Modi, former IAS officers R D Kapoor, Gopal Krishna and Samirendra Chatterjee, and Lingaya University Vice Chancellor Anil Roy Dubey are among those who have issued the joint statement.