New Delhi, 23 January 2010: Lok Sabha Speaker Smt. Meira Kumar, Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, and Chairman of the BJP Parliamentary Party, Shri L.K. Advani, led parliamentarians in paying floral tributes to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the Central Hall of Parliament House on his birth anniversary today.  

Smt. Krishna Tirath, Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Women and Child Development; Members of Parliament; and former Members of Parliament and others attended the function.

Shri P.D.T. Achary, Secretary-General of Lok Sabha, also paid floral tributes.

A booklet containing the profile of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, brought out in Hindi and English by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, was presented to the dignitaries.

The portrait of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was unveiled by the then President of India, Dr. N. Sanjiva Reddy, in the Central Hall of Parliament House on 23 January 1978.