Modi hosts farewell dinner for Mukherjee
Source: The Sangai Express
New Delhi, July 23 2017:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hosted a farewell dinner for outgoing President Pranab Mukherjee at Hyderabad House in New Delhi .
Mukherjee’s successor, former Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind, was in attendance, as was Vice-President Hamid Ansari.
Former Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu and Gopalkrishna Gandhi are in the race to succeed Ansari .
Modi presented Mu-kherjee with a memento at the dinner .
The outgoing president also signed the visitor’s book .
Pranab Mukherjee, a former Union Minister and veteran Parliamentarian, was the 13th President of India.
He succeeded Pratibha Patil .
Ram Nath Kovind will officially become India’s head of State on Tuesday, when he takes his oath.