Consulate General of India in Seattle stated that this marks the "first installation of Gandhi ji's bust in any State Capitol premise in the nine states under the consular jurisdiction of Indian Consulate in Seattle."
Amid row over seat change in Lok Sabha, Samajwadi Party MP Awadhesh Prasad on Saturday said that no matter where party leaders sit, the attention of the country and the world will be on them.
The Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shehzad Poonawalla on Friday took a dig at the Congress after currency notes were allegedly found on the seat allocated to its MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi. He alleged that wherever there is corruption and cash, Congress is found there.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP K Laxman on Friday demanded an investigation in connection with the cash reportedly recovered from a Rajya Sabha seat allotted to Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
In the aftermath of cash apparently recovered from Rajya Sabha seat allotted to Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Congress MP Jebi Mather claimed that there was a larger conspiracy behind it and time would prove who hatched it.
Following the wad of currency notes recovered from the seat of Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi, he said that an investigation should be carried out on how the security lapse occurred and who put the money rightly or by mistake.
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MP Mahua Majhi criticised the ruling NDA government at the centre and said that it was ironical that the government do not want to run the house and had adjourned the house after a wad of Rs 500 notes were found from the seat of Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar informed the house that a wad of cash was found on a seat allotted to Abhishek Manu Singhvi by security officials.
The Congress party sources on Friday believed that currency notes recovered from the bench of party leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi was a "ploy to distract attention" from the Adani issue.
BJP MP Anurag Thakur demanded a thorough investigation into the recovery of a wad of currency notes from Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi's seat in the Rajya Sabha, stating "the truth should come out."