BJP patriarch L K Advani on Saturday criticised the Congress leadership for skipping a function in Parliament to pay tribute to Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee.
Mookerjee, who was a minister in Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet, founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the first Hindu nationalist political party. A function was organised in Parliament’s Central Hall to mark Mookerjee’s birth anniversary.
But Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, Rajya Sabha chairperson Hamid Ansari and Congress MPs were missing.
(Published 06 July 2013, 19:44 IST)
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