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The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha will hold a special sitting today to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first session of India's Parliament.
The special sitting of the Lower House will be held from 11:00 in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon. There will be no Question Hour. The subject that will be taken up for discussion in the Lok Sabha will be — ‘Sixty-Year Journey of the Indian Parliament'.
Later, a function will be held in the Central Hall of Parliament at 5.30 pm when the President, Ms Pratibha Patil, will address members of both the Houses. The Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman, Mr Hamid Ansari, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and Lok Sabha Speaker, Ms Meira Kumar, will also address the joint sitting.
On this special day, two living members of the first Lok Sabha — Mr Reishang Keishing and Mr Resham Lal Jangde — will be honoured. The first sitting of the Lok Sabha took place on May 13, 1952.
As many as 489 members were elected in the first general elections after the Constitution came into effect. India had, as an independent nation, adopted universal suffrage despite large-scale illiteracy and impoverishment.
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