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May 27, 2023

Modi’s move to inaugurate new parliament termed ‘grave insult’ to democracy

NEW DELHI: The world´s most populous country inaugurates a new parliament on Sunday, the latest step in Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi´s plans to reshape India´s capital, but opposition parties are denouncing it as a “grave insult” to democracy.Modi has long sought to eliminate vestiges of British rule and the grand new hexagonal legislature stands next to the colonial-era building designed by British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker that it will replace. It is...