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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley snapped outside the Parliament on the first day of Budget session 2014. (Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
The Budget Session of Lok Sabha started on Monday (July 7) on a tempestuous note with members belonging to several opposition parties storming the Well protesting against inflation and hike in rail fares and prices of petrol, diesel and LPG.
Minister of Urban Development, Venkaiah Naidu with Prakash Javadekar (Minister for I&B) on the first day of Budget session. (Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
Kanimozhi, MP from Tamil Nadu, walks towards the Parliament for the first day of Budget session 2014. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
P. A. Sangma, MP for Tura, makes his way towards the Parliament with other Mps. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
Young MPs walk towards the Parliament on the first day of Budget session 2014. (Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
Today was the first day of the Budget session of the Narendra Modi government.
A man carrying a portrait of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the first day of parliament session. (Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the House along with his senior party and ministerial colleagues L K Advani, Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj. Congress President Sonia Gandhi was also seated in the front row of the opposition benches.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs M Venkaiah Naidu before the commencement of the Budget Session, at Parliament House in New Delhi. (Source: PTI)
Home Minister Rajnath Singh along with leaders of different political parties arrive for the all-party meeting before the commencement of the budget session, at Parliament House. (Source: PTI)
Sajjad Mughal alias Sajjad Pathan, convict in the Pallavi Purkayastha murder case, being escorted by the police on Monday (July 7) after a local court sentenced him to life imprisonment. Pathan was convicted for killing 25-year-old lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha in 2012. (Source: Express photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)
Security guard Sajjad, seen here outside the court, had tears in his eyes when the sentence was pronounced. He requested the court to give him the minimum sentence. (Source: Express photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)
Pallavi's parents Sumita and Atanu Purkayastha at the sessions court after the verdict. (Source: Express photo by Ganesh Shirsekar). Pallavi's father Atanu Purkayastha expressed disappointment over the quantum of sentence.
Pallavi's father Atanu Purkayastha, seen here after the verdict on July 7, said his daughter had put up a brave fight, even as she was stabbed for 16 times. He said it deserved to be considered a rarest of rare case, suggesting Sajjad should have got a harsher punishment. (Source: Express photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)
Congress party workers shout slogans against BJP during a protest against the price hike in New Delhi on Monday (July 7). (Source: AP)
The protest was against hike in rail fares, food prices and other essential commodities. (Source: AP)
Police keep vigil as Congress party workers shout slogans during the protest against the price hike. (Source: AP)
Britain's Chancellor George Osborne met RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan at Reserve Bank of India in Mumbai on Monday (July 7). (Source: Express Photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)
