President unveils Bhagat Singh’s statue in Parliament House

New Delhi, August 15 : Seventy-nine years after Bhagat Singh, along with fellow-revolutionary B K Dutt, threw a noise bomb on the floor of the Legislative Assembly "to make the deaf hear," President Pratibha Patil unveiled a statue of Singh in the same building, Parliament House complex, on Friday.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani joined the President to offer floral tributes at the 18-foot bronze statue of the revolutionary.

The installation of the statue was preceded by a tussle between the CPI(M) and Union Minister of State M S Gill for funding the project. CPI(M) Lok Sabha member Mohammad Salim was the first to make the offer by raising money through public donations. However, Gill got the Punjab Government to make a counter offer. However, Chatterjee ended the controversy by ruling that the Lok Sabha Secretariat will pay the cost.

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