Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani paid tributes to Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak on his birth anniversary today.
At the ceremony in the Central hall of Parliament, the Prime Minister and Advani were seen talking to each other.
Others present on the occasion included Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha P J Kurien and Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha Kariya Munda.
A booklet containing the profile of Tilak, brought out in Hindi and English by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, was presented to the dignitaries who attended the function.
The portrait of Tilak was unveiled in the Central Hall of Parliament in 1956 by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in recognition of his outstanding services to the nation.
Tilak (23 July 1856 - 1 August 1920), was an Indian nationalist, journalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and an independence activist, who was one of the first popular leaders of the Indian independence movement.
