PM Modi inaugurates new Parliament building
Deccan ChronicleNew Delhi: Giving modern India a modern house of democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the new Parliament building, which is situated just next to the previous one. In the second part, the PM inaugurated the new Parliament building by addressing a huge gathering that included Members of Parliament, Union Cabinet ministers, chief ministers of states, former President Ram Nath Kovind, former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, former PM H.D. Arriving in traditional attire, a dhoti kurta, for the morning prayers to install the Sengol, the PM along with the Lok Sabha Speaker performed "Ganapati Homam" to invoke gods to bless the inauguration of the new Parliament building, with the Sengol kept close by. The PM, along with 21 seers, then carried the Sengol to the new Parliament building in a procession amid tunes of "nadaswaram" and chanting of mantras, where he installed the Sengol with Nandi at the top facing east-west direction near the Speaker's chair in the new Lok Sabha House.