Rich tributes paid to Manmohan Kalia

When Murgai said the Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences under construction in the city be named after Kalia, the former Prime Minister endorsed the proposal, saying that as the area MP, it was his right to demand the naming in memory of the departed leader who, he said, was his classmate in college.

Editor of Vir Pratap, Chander Mohan while paying tributes to Kalia, sought support for the Vajpayee government for having taken the bold decision of conducting multiple nuclear tests.

BJP national vice-president K L Sharma and state chief Daya Singh Sodhi, SGPC President G S Tohra, Punjab Congress vice-president Avtar Henry, former Congress MP Iqbal Singh, city mayor Suresh Sehgal, Editor of Hind Samachar group of newspapers Vijay Chopra, Managing editor of Ajit group of newspapers Barjinder Singh Hamdard, News editor of Nawan Zamana Jatinder Pannu, several state ministers and BJP MLAs also paid their homage to Manmohan Kalia who had died in a road accident.

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