A group of 270 eminent citizens, including former bureaucrats, ambassadors, and veterans, issued a statement condemning the opposition parties for boycotting the inauguration of the new Parliament building in India. According to the reports by Hindustan Times, The signatories, which included retired bureaucrats, veterans, and academicians, criticized the opposition's "skeletal arguments, immature, whimsy and hollow reasoning" and accused them of engaging in non-democratic posturing.