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Tolerance, understanding can solve issues coming up in Parliament: Advani | Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K.Advani on
Sinday said that tolerance and understanding for each others' views and debates in Parliament can solve issues. "Parliament is a major example of that," he said
while speaking during a special session of Parliament to makr the 60th anniversary
of its first session. He added that he endorsed the views of Finance Minister
Pranab Mukherjee that differences can be resolved through debates. Referring to
frequent adjournments in the house, Mukherjee had said: "Disturbance in proceedings
impinge on the right of the silent majority. Let us try to avoid disruptions".
Referring to famous thinker Charvak, Advani said his line of 'Eat, Drink and Make
Merry' was understood and respected despite the fact that he challenged the traditional
philosophy that you pay for your sins in the next birth. The BJP leader said people
sceptical of a country of poor and illiterate people becoming a successful democracy
had been proved wrong. "Western intellectuals were sceptical on how people who
cannot sign and put thumb impression on papers will be able to run democracy.
Today, we can say it with pride that we have proved them wrong," he said. President
Pratibha Devi Singh Patil will address members of both Houses in the Central Hall
of Parliament at 5.30 p.m. She will also release five-rupee and 10-rupee coins
and publications of the secretariats of both the Houses on the auspicious occasion.
A cultural programme featuring Santoor maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, Sitarist
Debu Chaudhuri, Carnatic vocalist Maharajapuram Ramachandran, versatile singer
Shubha Mudgal and Iqbal Khan will light up the evening. India became a Republic
on November 26, 1949, but the first general elections were only held in 1951-52.
Constituted on April 17, 1952, the Lok Sabha held its first session from May 13,
1952.
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