RS Secretariat cites convention, refutes 'misleading reports' about Vice President skipping ceremony on Nehru's birth anniversary
Nov 15, 2021
New Delhi [India], November 15 : Rajya Sabha Secretariat said on Monday that "misleading reports" in a section of media alluding to the absence of Rajya Sabha Chairman M.Venkaiah Naidu at a ceremony in the Central Hall of Parliament on the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had caused him "deep distress" and that the Vice President never attends such ceremonies as a matter of convention.