Text of PM’s speech at the beginning of Winter Session of Parliament
Hello friends,
It is the winter session and the atmosphere will also remain cold. This is the last period of 2024, the country is also preparing to welcome 2025 with full enthusiasm and zeal. Friends, This session of Parliament is special in many ways. And the biggest thing is the 75-year journey of our Constitution, its entry into the 75th year. This in itself is a very bright occasion for democracy. And tomorrow in the Constitution House, everyone will together start the celebration of the 75th year of this Constitution. The Constitution makers have debated each point in great detail while making the Constitution, and only then we have received such an excellent document. And an important unit of it is our Parliament. Our MPs and our Parliament. There should be healthy discussions in the Parliament, more and more people should contribute to the discussion. Unfortunately, some people who have been rejected by the public for their political interests are constantly trying to control the Parliament with the hooliganism of a handful of people. Their own aim is not more successful than stopping the activities of the Parliament, and the people of the country count all their actions. And when the time comes, they also punish them.
But the most painful thing is that the new MPs come with new ideas, no, energy, and they do not come from any one party but from all parties. Some people usurp their rights. They do not even get a chance to speak in the House. In the democratic tradition, it is the job of every generation to prepare the coming generations, but those who have been continuously rejected by the public 80-90 times, neither allow discussions to take place in the Parliament, nor do they respect the spirit of democracy, nor do they understand the importance of the aspirations of the people…they have no responsibility towards them, they understand anything. And the result is that they never live up to the expectations of the public. And as a result, the public has to reject them again and again.
Friends,
This House of Democracy, after the 2024 Parliamentary elections, the people of the country have got an opportunity to express their sentiments, their views, their expectations at some places in their respective states. In that too, the results of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections have been given more strength by the states, more force has been provided, and the scope of support has increased. And it is the condition of democracy that we respect the sentiments of the people, work hard day and night to live up to their hopes and expectations. I have been repeatedly requesting especially the colleagues of the opposition, and some of the opposition also behave very responsibly. They also wish that the work in the House should be done smoothly. But those who have been continuously rejected by the people, they used to suppress the words of their colleagues, disrespect their sentiments, disrespect the sentiments of democracy.
I hope that our new colleagues get an opportunity, there are new colleagues in all parties. They have new ideas, new imaginations to take India forward. And today the world is looking towards India with great hope, then our use of time as MPs should be such that it strengthens the respect that India has gained at the global level, the attraction towards India. India rarely gets such opportunities in the world as it has received today. And the message from the Indian Parliament should also go out that the voters of India, their dedication towards democracy, their dedication towards the Constitution, their faith in the parliamentary working system, all of us sitting in the Parliament will have to live up to these sentiments of the people. And the need of the hour is that we should repent a little for the time we have lost so far, and the way to rectify it is that we should highlight various aspects of every subject in the Parliament House in a very healthy manner. The coming generations will also read it and take inspiration from it.
I hope that this session will be very fruitful, will enhance the glory of the 75th year of the Constitution, will strengthen India’s global dignity, will provide opportunities to new MPs, will welcome new ideas. With this feeling, I once again invite and welcome all the honourable MPs to take this session forward with zeal and enthusiasm. Many thanks to all of you colleagues too.
Namaskar.
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Source: PIB, NEW DELHI. Posted on25.11.2024
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