Suu Kyi to meet Lok Sabh Speaker tomorrow

The two leaders are likely to share their experiences in democratic traditions and parliamentary practices and procedures, besides deliberating on the warm and cordial relations between India and Myanmar.

Kumar, who has been emphasising the imperative of sharing India's parliamentary experience with other countries, had directed organising specialised capacity building programme for Myanmarese MPs and parliamentary officers.

A Parliamentary Delegation from Myanmar led by the Myanmarese Speaker had called on Kumar in December 2011 and the Lok Sabha Speaker had offered Indian Parliament's support in the capacity-building of Myanmarese MPs and parliamentary officials.

Subsequently, two programmes for 30 members of Myanmar Parliament were organised at the Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training (BPST) of the Lok Sabha Secretariat in July and October 2012, which enabled them to interact with senior Indian parliamentarians on issues including legislative process, parliamentary questions and other procedural devices to raise matters on the floor of the House, budgetary process, committee system, parliamentary privileges, support services for MPs.

Similarly, 30 middle level officers of the Myanmarese Parliament attended two separate programmes in the Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training of the Lok Sabha Secretariat in June and September 2012, a Lok Sabha release said.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had, during his visit to Myanmar in May 2012, assured his Myanmarese hosts that India would extend all possible support towards capacity-building in parliamentary practices and procedures for their Parliamentarians and parliamentary officials.