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Meira Kumar leads tributes to Netaji on 115th birth anniv
January 23, 2012
Parliamentarians led by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar offered floral tributes to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his 115th birth anniversary today. 

Besides the Speaker, senior BJP leader L K Advani and Congress leader Girija Vyas were among those present at a brief ceremony in the Central Hall of Parliament. The dignitaries and Parliament officials offered floral tributes at a portrait of Bose in the Central Hall. 

Bose was an outstanding leader of the freedom movement and a revolutionary par excellence who took the struggle for independence beyond the Indian borders. 

A booklet containing the profile of the freedom fighter, brought out in Hindi and English by the Lok Sabha secretariat, was also presented to the dignitaries.
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