Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today was conspicuous by his absence at a joint group photograph of members of both the Houses to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Parliament as he was not informed.

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Sources said the information about the photo-op was put up by the Lok Sabha Secretariat on its website as part of its agenda but there was no separate communication to the office of Mukherjee, who is also the Leader of the House in the Lok Sabha.u00a0

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"Lok Sabha secretariat and Rajya Sabha secretariat give information through their bulletin. I see the bulletins regularly and this (the group photograph session) has come several times. I cannot say anything more than that," Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said.u00a0

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