Rajya Sabha will today take up the Motion of thanks on President Pranab Mukherjee address to the joint sitting of the Parliament. Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is scheduled to initiate the discussion on it. However, Lok Sabha will not sit today, as a mark of respect to former Union Minister E Ahmed,
who passed away on Tuesday.
He passed away after suffering a heart attack during the President address. Mr. Ahmed represented the Malappuram Lok Sabha constituency of Kerala. He served as the Minister of State for External Affairs in the Manmohan Singh government.