Former LS Speaker Balram Jakhar passes away
Former Lok Sabha (LS) Speaker Balram Jakhar, 93, passed away early on Wednesday. The former Union Agriculture Minister, who had been elected the LS Speaker unanimously twice in a row, will be cremated at his family village Panchkosi, Punjab. The Congress leader, who had also been the Governor of Madhya Pradesh, was undergoing treatment after a brain stroke last year.