Raipur

Speaker to attend Commonwealth Parliamentary Meet

Staff Reporter

Chhattisgarh legislative Assembly Speaker Gaurishankar Agrawal will be leaving for Dhaka in Bangladesh on Monday evening to attend Commonwealth Parliamentary Convention currently being held from November 1 to 8.

The Speaker could not attend the inaugural session of the Convention due to President Ram Nath Kovind’s two-day visit of Chhattisgarh, a Chhattisgarh legislative Assembly press release informed.

The Speaker will now be attending the concluding session of the Convention to be held onNovember 7.

Thereafter , from November 8, Agrawal will be on a three-nation study tour of South Africa, Canada and United States and will return to New Delhi on November 23.