New Delhi: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, and senior ministers have skipped the function in the Parliament to mark the birth anniversary of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Opposition Congress has upset over the absence of senior ministers and constitutional functionaries in the meeting.

Congress's chief whip in Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh tweeted: "Extraordinary scene today in Parliament at the traditional function to mark the birth anniversary of those whose portraits adorn the Central Hall. Speaker Lok Sabha absent. Chairman Rajya Sabha absent. Not a single Minister present. Can it get more atrocious than this?!"

Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’ Brien tweeted that "nothing surprises me anymore. This dispensation is destroying India's great institutions, including Parliament one day at a time,"

The function at the Central Hall this morning was attended by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma. Besides, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and other members of parliament were present. However noted absentees are Speaker Om Birla and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu.

"Not surprising from this regime and its toadies masquerading as scholars but atrocious nevertheless." Mr. Ramesh stated in tweets.

Party spokesperson Gaurav Gogoi said no country removes the first prime minister from a website about the freedom struggle and said the move was was "petty" and an "injustice". Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said the Indian Council of Historical Research or ICHR -- had "disgraced" itself.