Parliament to skip lunch on historic 60th birthday

May 13, 2012 13:03

Sharad Pawar speaking in the LS. More of that in a bit.

Speaker Meira Kumar announces that the House will skip lunch since this is a historic occasion. Murmurs of discontent, amid reassurances that provisions for lunch have been made in room number 10. Meira Kumar says the House is self-regulatory today and urges other MPs, specially Independents to speak.

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