Rajya Sabha on Thursday will bid farewell to 72 members retiring from the House who will be retiring from their services till August this year. Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu, announced in the House on Wednesday that Zero Hour and Question Hour will not be taken up in the House on Thursday so as to enable the leaders and members to speak on the occasion.
Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Leader of the House, Leader of the Opposition, leaders of various parties and several of the retiring members will speak in the House on the occasion.
Naidu will also host a dinner on Thursday for all the members of the Rajya Sabha on the occasion at his official residence. Mementos will be presented to all the 72 retiring members and another 19 retired earlier who could not receive the mementos.
At the dinner, about half a dozen Rajya Sabha Members will showcase their cultural talents.
Dr Santanu Sen will play the Guitar; Dola Sen will present Rabindra Sangeet; Tiruchi Siva will render a Tamil song; Rupa Ganguly, a Hindi song and Ramachandra Jhangra, a patriotic song; Vandana Chavan will sing a Hindi song. These individual performances will be followed by a chorus song.
The senior officials of the RS Secretariat have said that the members of the House will showcase their cultural talents after 20 years at such an occasion.
( With inputs from ANI )
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