Eldest leaves the House of Elders

February 20, 2014 11:32

A little after 5 pm on Wednesday, as the Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day, Rishang Keishing, 94-year-old MP from Manipur, quietly left his seat and headed for the exit -- for the last time in his life.

The oldest serving parliamentarian in the world will not attend the last two days of the ongoing session. His term in the upper house ends on April 9.

No one saw him off, no TV cameras followed him, as Keishing, unescorted and unnoticed, hailed his car to leave the Parliament complex. He said he liked it this way.

"I have had enough. I'm glad to go,' Keishing, who was a member of the first Lok Sabha in 1952, told The Indian Express. Read more

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