24.1.14

Somewhere in Parliament....

Veteran BJP leader L K Advani turned out to be the only member of Parliament on Thursday to pay tribute to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose at Parliament’s Central Hall on his 118th birth anniversary. None of the central ministers were present on the occasion, raising brows.
The only others present at the brief ceremony were officials of the Lok Sabha secretariat. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, who usually leads parliamentarians on such functions, was conspicuous by her absence.
Advani, who hardly misses any parliamentary function if he is around in Delhi, found it odd that even parliamentary affairs minister was absent to pay tribute to Bose, who was a frontline Congress leader during the freedom movement till he fell out with Mahatma Gandhi and formed his own Forward Bloc.
It was also surprising that no minister or MP from West Bengal, were present while Bose’s birth anniversary is celebrated in a big way in his home state and observed as a state holiday. 

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