Only suriviving member of provisional Parliament absent

May 13, 2012 12:29

When the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha hold special sittings on Sunday to mark the 60 anniversary of the first session of Parliament, T.M. Kaliannan, surviving member of the Provisional Parliament, will not be present. The 91-year-old Kaliannan is probably the only surviving member of the Provisional Parliament.

He was barely 28 years old when he became a member of the House. "After P. Subbarayan (1889-1962) quit the House on his appointment as the Ambassador of Indonesia [in December 1949], I became a member (representing Congress),' he recalls, adding that his membership in the Provisional Parliament was for a short period. The Provisional Parliament functioned until the first general election and formation of the first Lok Sabha in 1952.

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