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President Droupadi Murmu will begin a two-day visit to West Bengal on Monday, her first since taking office, where she will pay tributes to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Rabindranath Tagore.
According to an official statement, the President will pay his respects to Netaji at Netaji Bhawan in Kolkata on Monday. The same evening, she will attend a civic reception hosted in her honor at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata.
According to a statement issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the President will also visit Santiniketan to attend the Visva-Bharati annual convocation. She will pay her respects to Rabindranath Tagore later in the day at his home, Jorasanko Thakurbari.
President Murmu will pay a visit to Belur Math on Monday.“She will also grace the celebration of the completion of 80 years of UCO Bank in Kolkata,” the release said. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee and President Murmu will be sharing the stage at the event.
On March 19, President Murmu visited the Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari district. “Visiting the iconic Vivekananda Rock memorial is a memorable experience for me. I marvel at the greatness of the late Eknath Ranade Ji who was behind the building of the spiritually charged complex”, tweeted the President’s official Twitter handle.
Source:HT
