By IANS
New Delhi : The Lok Sabha was adjourned Friday after obituary references to two sitting and five former MPs.
The sitting MPs who had passed away since the last session of parliament were former prime minister Chandra Shekhar and Ajit Kumar Singh.
The house also mourned the deaths of former members Sahib Singh Verma, Krishna Chander Halder, Chandrajit Yadav, P. Nagaratnam and Bharat Singh Chauhan.
Meanwhile, voting to elect India’s 12th vice president got underway at parliament house at 10 a.m. Friday, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh among the first to cast his ballot.
Polling will close at 5 p.m. and votes will be counted after 6 p.m, with the results being announced by Friday evening.
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