V-P Dhankhar to host Rajya Sabha floor leaders for dinner today
Jagdeep Dhankhar
New Delhi: Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar will host floor leaders of Rajya Sabha for dinner at his official residence here today.
Citing sources in the VP Secretariat news agency ANI reported that an invitation had been sent to all Rajya Sabha floor leaders to attend the "courtesy dinner meet".
This will be the first of such a gathering by Dhankhar who took over as vice president on August 11.
Apart from Rajya Sabha floor leaders, the Leader of the House, Union Minister Piyush Goyal, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi and some senior ministers who are members of the upper house have been invited to the dinner meeting, the report said.
The dinner meeting also comes ahead of the Winter Session of Parliament which usually commences in the third week of November.
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