New Parliament Building Should Be Called Modi Multiplex: Congress Jairam Ramesh

New Delhi: Congress General Secretary in charge of Communications Jairam Ramesh on Saturday hit out at the Centre over the construction of the new Parliament building and said that the new complex should be called the "Modi Multiplex or Modi Marriot". In a long post on X, the Congress leader said that he witnessed the "death of confabulations and conversations both inside the two Houses and in the lobbies."

Further coming down heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ramesh said the PM has already killed democracy without even rewriting the Constitution. "The new Parliament building launched with so much hype actually realises the PM's objectives very well. It should be called the Modi Multiplex or Modi Marriot. After four days, what I saw was the death of confabulations and conversations—both inside the two Houses and in the lobbies," he said.

"If architecture can kill democracy, the PM has already succeeded even without rewriting the Constitution," he added. Congress general secretary compared the old Parliament building with the new building and said that coordination between the two Houses in the new building is exceedingly cumbersome and termed it as "claustrophobic".