Chennai, February 18 The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Wednesday expressed its condolences on the death of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.
Immediately after the session began, Speaker M Appavu read out a resolution expressing grief over Pawar's death, the national president of the Nationalist Congress Party, who died in a plane crash near Baramati on January 28.
The Speaker also paid tributes to former members of the Legislative Assembly: N Sundaram and K Lingamuthu, and to the death of S S Rajagopalan, an educationist.
The House observed a two-minute silence in honour of the deceased.