Date: 13 December 2018 PARLIAMENT OF INDIA RAJYA SABHA SECRETARIAT PRESS RELEASE VICE-PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER AND A LARGE NUMBER OF MPs PAY TRIBUTE TO THE MARTYRS OF PARLIAMENT ATTACK th 17 ANNIVERSARY OF TERRORIST ATTACK ON PARLIAMENT TODAY The Vice-President of India and Chairman, Rajya Sabha, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu; Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi; and Lok Sabha Speaker, Smt Sumitra Mahajan led the nation today in paying tributes to the martyrs who laid down their lives while defending the Parliament from the terrorist attack on 13 December 2001. The family members of the martyrs were present on the occasion. Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu also interacted with them and enquired about their well being. Minister of Home Affairs, Shri Rajnath Singh; Minister of Finance and Leader of the House, Rajya Sabha, Shri Arun Jaitley; Minister of External Affairs, Shrimati Sushma Swaraj, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar; Minister of Law and Justice, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, former Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh; Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad; Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha, Shri Harivansh; Shri Amit Shah, MP (Rajya Sabha), Smt. Sonia Gandhi and Shri Rahul Gandhi, both members of Lok Sabha also paid tributes. Among others who paid tributes were several Union Ministers and a large number of Members of Parliament. The Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha, Shri Desh Deepak Verma and Secretary-General, Lok Sabha, Shrimati Snehlata Shrivastava also paid tributes. A blood donation camp was organized at Parliament House on the occasion by the Indian Red Cross Society, in which Members of Parliament and a large number of officers and staff of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha Secretariats donated blood. It was on this day in the year 2001, that nine persons namely, Shri Jagdish Prasad Yadav and Shri Matbar Singh Negi, both Security Assistants of Rajya Sabha Secretariat; Smt. Kamlesh Kumari, Constable, CRPF; Shri Nanak Chand and Shri Rampal, Assistant Sub-Inspectors, Delhi Police; Shri Om Prakash, Shri Bijender Singh and Shri Ghanshyam, Head Constables, Delhi Police; and Shri Deshraj, Gardener, CPWD, had sacrificed their lives while defending the Parliament against the terrorist attack. .