New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- Delhi Chief Minister on Sunday termed the inauguration of a two-day All India Speakers Conference in the national capital as a "historic day for the Indian democracy."

The Delhi CM further hailed Vittalbhai Patel, the first elected president of the Central Legislative Assembly and said he must have envisioned that Indians would sit in assemblies as true representatives of the people under the flag of independent India.

"Today is a historic day for our democracy. A hundred years ago, during the British era, for the very first time, an Indian of native origin became the Speaker of this Assembly complex. That moment must have ignited the first spark in the hearts of Indians--that even under British rule, an Indian cou...