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Cong MP dies; LS adjourned for the day
New Delhi, July 24: Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day today as a mark of respect to sitting congress member Atmaram Maganbhai Patel who died in Gujarat yesterday.
New Delhi, July 24: Lok Sabha was adjourned for the
day today as a mark of respect to sitting congress member
Atmaram Maganbhai Patel who died in Gujarat yesterday.
85-year old Patel, who was the oldest member of the house representing Mehsana, was a close aide of newly-appointed Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee president Shankarsinh Vaghela having left BJP in 1996. Paying tributes to Patel, Speaker Manohar Joshi said he had been active in the cooperative movement and was conferred IFFCO Award for this in 1985. Joshi said Patel was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on commerce for 1999-2000 and the consultative committee for heavy industries.
He said it was decided at a meeting of leaders of political parties that the speaker would pay tributes on behalf of the entire house and adjourn it for the day after observing a minute's silence in memory of the departed member.
Bureau Report
85-year old Patel, who was the oldest member of the house representing Mehsana, was a close aide of newly-appointed Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee president Shankarsinh Vaghela having left BJP in 1996. Paying tributes to Patel, Speaker Manohar Joshi said he had been active in the cooperative movement and was conferred IFFCO Award for this in 1985. Joshi said Patel was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on commerce for 1999-2000 and the consultative committee for heavy industries.
He said it was decided at a meeting of leaders of political parties that the speaker would pay tributes on behalf of the entire house and adjourn it for the day after observing a minute's silence in memory of the departed member.
Bureau Report