With his younger son’s wedding scheduled this month, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been often traveling betwixt Delhi and Bhopal. On Thursday, helium was successful Bhopal for the pre-wedding ‘Lagna’ ceremonial and ‘Satyanarayana Puja’ astatine his residence. Despite his engagements, Chouhan, it is learnt, managed to behaviour 2 abstracted videoconferences to person briefings connected parliamentary questions, arsenic helium is expected to reply successful the Lok Sabha connected Friday.
Letter And Spirit
The government’s program to acceptable up a memorial for precocious Prime Minister Manmohan Singh astatine Rashtriya Smriti Sthal is awaiting the go-ahead of his family, it is learnt. After Singh passed distant successful December past year, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs informed his household astir the memorial program successful a missive sent successful January. A akin missive was sent to erstwhile President Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter, Sharmistha Mukherjee, informing her of the government’s determination to acceptable up a memorial for the erstwhile Congress stalwart, who died successful 2020, astatine Rashtriya Smriti. While Sharmistha gave her consent for the memorial, authorities sources say, Singh’s household is yet to respond to the letter.
To The Fullest
During his code successful the Rajya Sabha connected Thursday, erstwhile premier curate H D Deve Gowda, 91, reflected connected his travel arsenic a parliamentarian, which began 33 years ago. He said 1 much twelvemonth is near successful his existent word and added that helium did not cognize whether helium would implicit his afloat term. This prompted Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar to interject and accidental that the full House was with him and that helium volition not lone implicit the afloat word but besides beryllium capable to bless them. The Chairman wished Deve Gowda a agelong life.