New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday felicitated the workers who played a significant role in the construction and development of the new Parliament building in New Delhi.
The Prime Minister, who inaugurated the new Parliament building and installed the sacred ‘Sengol’ inside it, felicitated the workers.
Among those honoured by Modi was Puranjan Dalai from Odisha. He hails from Chandipur in Balasore district, sources said. Modi felicitated Puranjan and others with traditional shawls and handed over mementoes to them ahead of inaugurating the iconic building.
Puranjan, who considers hard work and service to mankind as his motto. was engaged at the site during the construction of the new Parliament building.
Apart from Purandar, other workers felicitated by the Prime Minister included Satyaranjan Das from West Bengal, Ram Murmu & Azaz hmed from Jharkhand, Kishan Lal from Rajasthan, Devlal from Gujarat, Anil Kumar Yadav & Subrata Sutradhar from Bihar, Dharmendra Jee from New Delhi and Anand Viswakarma from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
The Prime Minister dedicated the new Parliament building to the nation and installed the sacred ‘Sengol’ from Tamil Nadu in the Lok Sabha chamber, next to the Speaker’s chair, after performing puja this morning.
The Prime Minister was handed over the historic ‘Sengol’ by high priests of various adheenams or maths in Tamil Nadu before its instalment in the new building. Modi took a decision to adopt Sengol as a national symbol of the Amrit Kaal.
This is the same Sengol that was accepted by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at his residence on the night of August 14, in the presence of several leaders.
