New Delhi, Dec 10: Speaker Manohar Joshi and several other leaders today paid homage to the great patriot and acclaimed statesman C Rajagopalachari in the central hall of Parliament on his 123rd birth anniversary. Joshi was joined by the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha Sonia Gandhi, deputy speaker P M Sayeed and a number of MPs belonging to various parties in paying floral tributes at his portrait, a Lok Sabha press release said. A booklet containing the profile of Rajagopalachari was brought out by the Lok Sabha secretariat on the occasion.

Bureau Report