New Delhi: Parliamentarians led by Lok Sabha
Speaker Meira Kumar offered floral tributes to Netaji Subhash
Chandra Bose on his 115th birth anniversary today.
Besides the Speaker, senior BJP leader L K Advani and
Congress leader Girija Vyas were among those present at a
brief ceremony in the Central Hall of Parliament.
The dignitaries and Parliament officials offered floral
tributes at a portrait of Bose in the Central Hall.
Bose was an outstanding leader of the freedom movement
and a revolutionary par excellence who took the struggle for
independence beyond the Indian borders.
A booklet containing the profile of the freedom fighter,
brought out in Hindi and English by the Lok Sabha secretariat,
was presented to the dignitaries.
The portrait of Netaji was unveiled by then President N
Sanjiva Reddy in the Central Hall on January 23, 1978.
PTI
First Published: Monday, January 23, 2012, 12:16