The Himachal Pradesh assembly on Monday paid tributes to former Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who passed away last week & was then adjourned for the day.
"The nation has lost its great leader," Speaker Rajiv Bindal said before adjourning the House for the day. A 2-minute silence was also observed before the adjournment.Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said Jaitley was not only a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, but also a national leader.Leader of Opposition Mukesh Agnihotri, CPI(M) MLA Rakesh Singha, former state Congress president Sukhvinder Sukhu, Education and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Bhardwaj and Industries Minister Bikram Singh also paid homage to Jaitley.The senior BJP leader died at the AIIMS, New Delhi, on Saturday.