India, July 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Lok Sabha Speaker Shri Om Birla paid floral tributes to former Lok Sabha Speaker, Shri Somnath Chatterjee in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan, on his birth anniversary, today.
Members of Parliament, former Members of Parliament and other dignitaries also paid floral tributes to Shri Somnath Chatterjee in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan, on this occasion.
Secretary-General, Lok Sabha, Shri Utpal Kumar Singh also paid tributes to Shri Chatterjee.
Shri Somnath Chatterjee was born on 25 July 1929 in Tezpur, Assam. A distinguished lawyer by profession, he entered active politics in 1968 and was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1971. Over the course of an exceptional par...