Jaitley left out of President's dinner
May 20, 2014  17:59
President Pranab Mukherjee hosted a farewell dinner for Dr Manmohan Singh's council of ministers, to which Sushma Swaraj was invited as she was Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. 

A notable exception was Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley, who did not receive an invitation. He got to know about it after Sushma Swaraj asked him about his absence, and later in the night Jaitley also received an SMS from P Chidambaram too saying, 'why were you absent?' 

Obviously Jaitley was upset, but did not make it an issue. The President's secretariat subsequently clarified to Jaitley that the dinner was for the dissolved Lok Sabha, and not for the Rajya Sabha which is a permanent House. 

BJP leaders question this logic saying that Dr Manmohan Singh is also from the Rajya Sabha, as are Anand Sharma, GK Vasan, Ghulam Nabi Azad and who were all invited for the dinner'
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