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President to unveil Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s life-size portrait in Parliament

New Delhi | A life-size portrait of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be unveiled by the President in Parliament House on Tuesday, an official said.

President Ram Nath Kovind will unveil the portrait in the Central Hall of Parliament House in the presence of Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ministers, and leaders of various parties are expected to mark their presence during the event, a parliament official said.

Vajpayee became the Prime Minister for the first time in 1996 for 13 days, then for 13 months from 1998 to 1999, and then from 1999 to 2004. He passed away on August 16, 2018 at the age of 93 years after a prolonged illness.

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AAP invites Rahul Gandhi for opposition rally

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New Delhi | The AAP has invited Congress President Rahul Gandhi to attend its mega “Tanashahi Hatao, Loktantra Bachao” rally in the national capital on Wednesday to corner the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre, a senior party leader said.

Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh told PTI that the Congress president is one of the invitees of the ‘Tanashahi Hatao Loktantra Bachao’ rally to be held on February 13 here. “Sharad Pawar, Sharad Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati, Mamata Banerjee, MK Stalin, Chandrababu Naidu are among other invited for the rally,” he said.

The AAP programme will be attended by all those who had participated in Banerjee’s rally early this month in Kolkata, said Delhi AAP convener Gopal Rai.

Sources said with just around two months before the polls, the rally will serve to bring the opposition leaders together in firming up a ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (grand alliance)to challenge the BJP and its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners in the polls.

There were talks of an alliance between the AAP and the Congress for the Lok Sabha polls, but the local leadership of the grand old party is believed to have been against it. The AAP and the Congress have been bitter rivals in Delhi and Punjab.

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