The Lok Sabha held its first sitting in the new Parliament complex on Tuesday. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla welcomed the MPs to the new chambers and hoped that the spirit of cooperation will be maintained there as well. The new Lok Sabha chambers are bigger than the last one and accommodate 888 members.
Lok Sabha proceedings on Tuesday began in the new Parliament building, located adjacent to the old one, starting a new chapter in the parliamentary history of India.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who walked down from the old building along with Union Ministers including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and other leaders, was present on the occasion.
Initiating the first day of the proceedings, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urged on members to set a new standard of parliamentary debate by raising people's issues, as he extended greetings of Ganesh Chaturthi, and called the move to the new parliament house a historic event.
Birla also paid his tributes to leaders who built the nation and gave India its own constitution.
The new parliament building boasts of a palette of colours and architecture that takes its cue from everything Indian, from ancient to medieval.
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The colour used in Rajya Sabha has been inspired by the shade of kokum red, while the look of Lok Sabha is based on Indian agave green with inspirations from the plumes of the Indian peacock.
The new Parliament building, inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi on May 28, has artwork narrating India's democratic traditions from the Vedic period to the present day.
(with PTI inputs)