NEW DELHI: (AMN): Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman K. Rahman Khan led the nation in paying floral tributes at the portrait of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in the Central Hall of Parliament House on his Birth Anniversary Thursday.
Among other dignitaries who paid floral tributes were: Leader of the House in Lok Sabha and Union Minister for Finance Pranab Mukherjee; Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj; Chairman of BJP Parliamentary Party L.K. Advani; Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources Pawan Kumar Bansal; Union Minister for Corporate Affairs and Minority Affairs Salman Khursheed; Union Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs V. Narayanasamy; Union Minister of State for Urban Development Prof. Saugata Roy; Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, S. Gandhiselvan; Union Minister of State for Rural Development Kumari Agatha K. Sangama; Members of Parliament; and former Members of Parliament.
The Secretaries-General of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, T.K. Viswanathan and Dr. V.K. Agnihotri, respectively, also paid floral tributes.
A booklet containing the profile of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, brought out in Hindi and English by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, was also presented to the dignitaries who attended the function. The portrait of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was unveiled by the then President of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, in the Central Hall of Parliament House on 16 December 1959.