The Speaker on her part distributed footballs to Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha MPs at a ceremony outside the Parliament House.
Celebrating the FIFA decision to hold the Under-17 FIFA football world cup in Kolkata later this year, former footballer Prasun Banerjee, who is a Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member, approached the Chair with a football and handed it over to Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.
Banerjee, a former Captain of the Indian football team, did this as soon as the House met for the day.
The final will be held at the Yuva Bharti Krirangan in Kolkata on October 28.
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