The celebration of Constitution Day by both Houses of Parliament took on a piquantly personal touch because of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
The finance minister, who is also the Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha, has been busy with preparations for his daughter Sonali’s wedding in early December, and in between lobbying for the clearance of the Goods and Services Tax Bill, managed to secure over 300 DVD sets of Rajya Sabha TV’s acclaimed series on the making of India’s Constitution – Samvidhan.
These DVD sets are now being given out as part of the invitation to the wedding to Mr Jaitley’s peers in the legal profession, Judges and eminent lawyers alike instead of the traditional box of sweets that usually accompanies the invitation card.