Kolkata, July 3 -- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, along with West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, inaugurated a two-day orientation programme for newly elected members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly on Friday at the convention centre in New Town.
The inaugural session was attended by union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh, Leader of the Opposition Ritabrata Banerjee, Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose and several other senior political leaders and constitutional functionaries.
The programme has been organised jointly by the Parliamentary Research and Training Institute for Democracies (PRIDE) under the Lok Sabha Secretariat and the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
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