New Delhi, 6 July 2010: Lok Sabha Speaker Smt. Meira Kumar; Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Shri Arun Jaitley; Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha,  Smt. Sushma Swaraj; and Chairman of the BJP Parliamentary Party Shri L.K. Advani led the nation in paying floral tributes at the portrait of  Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee in the Central Hall of Parliament House on his Birth Anniversary, today.

Union Ministers, Members of Parliament, former Members of Parliament, and the Secretaries-General of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Shri P.D.T. Achary and  Dr. V.K. Agnihotri, respectively, also paid floral tributes.

A booklet containing the profile of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, brought out by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, was  presented to the dignitaries who attended the function.

The portrait of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee was unveiled by the then President of India, Shri R. Venkataraman, in the Central Hall of Parliament House on 31 May 1991, in recognition of his outstanding services to the nation.