New Delhi, Feb. 23 -- In a significant push to strengthen India's parliamentary diplomacy, the Lok Sabha Speaker has constituted Parliamentary Friendship Groups (PFGs) with more than 60 countries, creating a formal institutional framework to deepen engagement with legislatures across the world.
According to a press note issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, senior leaders from across the political spectrum have been appointed to lead these groups, reflecting what officials described as "the diversity and strength of India's democracy before the global community."In a major initiative, prominent parliamentarians, including P Chidambaram, Shashi Tharoor, Ravi Shankar Prasad, T R Baalu, K C Venugopal, Akhilesh Yadav, Asaduddin Owaisi, Abhishek...