LS adjourns after obituary references

New Delhi, Jul 26 (PTI) The Lok Sabha Monday adjourned for
the day on the opening day of the monsoon session after paying
tributes to former Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat and
sitting member Digvijay Singh who died during the
inter-session period.
The Lower House of Indian Parliament also condoled the
death of former member Ram Sagar.
The members also paid homage to Kargil war heroes who
fought valiantly to evict Pakistani soldiers from icy heights.
Monday is the 11th anniversary of the Indian victory in the
Kargil war.
House Speaker Meira Kumar also remembered the victims of
the naxal attacks on CRPF personnel in Narayanpur and Bijapur,
and the killing of a sarpanch of a village in Rajnandgaon
district in Chhattisgarh state in central India.
"The House strongly condemns these dastardly attacks which
are aimed at disturbing peace and creating chaos in the
country," Kumar said.
The House also condoled the deaths in the Mangalore air
crash, Jnaneshwari Express accident in West Midnapore and in
the collision of Uttarbanga Express and Vananchal Express at
Sainthia in Birbhum district of West Bengal besides those who
died in heavy rains in Punjab.
The Speaker paid glowing tributes to Shekhawat, whom she
remembered as a "sagacious statesman, a distinguished
legislator and a committed votary of humanitarian values."
Shekhawat, who was chief minister of Rajasthan three
times, passed away on May 15 at Jaipur.
Digvijay Singh, a sitting Independent member from Banka in
Bihar, breathed his last on June 24 at London.
Ram Sagar, who represented Saidpur constituency in Uttar
Pradesh in the sixth and ninth Lok Sabha, passed away on July
12 at Varanasi. PTI