Footballer-turned-politician persents a football to Speaker

A noted footballer-turned- politician today presented a football to the Speaker in the Lok Sabha to celebrate FIFA's decision to hold the U-17 world cup final in Kolkata.

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.

"I decided to gift one to our beloved Speaker. A small memento from a former football captain," he said.

The final will be held at the Yuva Bharti Krirangan in Kolkata on October 28.

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