20 December,2010 08:22 AM IST | | Mid Day Correspondent
He was waiting to be felicitated with a garland and a shawl at the Congress plenary here Sunday, but when it took inordinately long, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh decided to resume his seat on the dais Manmohan Singh was to be greeted by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and state party chief JP Agarwal, but the garland and the shawl took inexorably long to arrive.
Petal power: The PM being garlanded during the plenary session.
PIC/Imtiyaz Khan
An announcement was made by party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi at the start of proceedings that Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi were to be greeted.
The two Delhi leaders honoured Sonia Gandhi with a bouquet, a huge garland and a shawl. But the garland and shawl for the prime minister did not arrive for quite some time after that.
The prime minister resumed his seat, forcing Agarwal to rush to the side of dais to fetch the huge garland which was decked in the party colours and the prime minister was finally felicitated.
| Whose fault is it? |
| On Sunday evening, 40-year-old Anil Jain, an east Delhi resident, complained to his son of chest pain. He was driven to the nearby GTB Hospital, but they didn't have proper equipment to treat him. Doctors referred him to GB Pant Hospital in Daryaganj. But when the ambulance reached a traffic light near Rajghat at around 7.30pm, it got stuck in a huge traffic jam allegedly caused by the convoy of the PM. Jain remained stuck for half an hour and he died en route to the hospital. |
