Gallery honouring former UP CMs and speakers unveiled

Lucknow, Aug 29 (PTI) A gallery containing oil portraitsof former chief ministers and speakers of the Uttar PradeshAssembly was unveiled in the Vidhan Sabha campus today. The gallery is the first in the state and is along thelines of the galleries in the Rashtrapati Bhawan and PrimeMinister’s residence. The oil portraits of all the former chief ministers andspeakers were jointly unveiled by West Bengal Governor KeshriNath Tripathi who is also former speaker of the UP House,former Chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and Chief MinisterAkhilesh Yadav in the presence of large number of sitting andformer members. Former Union Minister Ajit Singh, son of former chiefminister Chaudhary Charan Singh, and Congress leader RitaBahuguna Joshi, daughter of ex-CM HN Bahuguna, were also inattendance. Meanwhile, BJP staged a walkout in the Assembly opposingthe UP Kshetra panchayat and zila panchayat amendment bill onbringing no-confidence motion against the district panchayatchairpersons and the khetra panchayat chairpersons. The amendment in the bill restricts bringing no-confidencemotion against the chairpersons of the khetra and districtpanchayats for a period of two years from the day of theirelection instead of one year as was in force earlier. PTI SABMRJMRJ