India : BJP Leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said “The Congress move to boycott the event had nothing to do with the President, was the Congress was part of the event to lay the foundation stone for the parliament building in December 2020. Or if they have ever gone to pay their respects to Sardar Patel’s statute in Gujarat, or the military’s memorial at India Gate….“No”. They did not. Because Modi made it. This is their problem,” Prasad said.
Total 19 political parties issued a joint statement to announce their decision to boycott the inauguration of the parliament building on May 28, saying that they found no value in a new building “when the soul of democracy has been sucked out of Parliament”. Later, two more parties, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), also said they will also boycott the event.