President Kovind to visit native village by special train
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It is after a spot of 15 years that an incumbent President is making a train journey
President Ram Nath Kovind will go away for his native village, Paraunkh, in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur Dehat, on June 25 by a special train from the Safdarjung railway station in Delhi.
“The train will make two stop-overs, at Jhinjhak and Rura of Kanpur Dehat, where the President will interact with his old acquaintances from his school days and from early days of his social service,” mentioned a Rashtrapati Bhavan launch.
The stop-overs are shut to the President’s birthplace, Paraunkh, the place two capabilities to felicitate him are scheduled on June 27. On June 28, the President will board the train at Kanpur Central railway station to attain Lucknow for his two-day visit there. The subsequent day, he’ll return to the nationwide capital on a special flight.
This is the primary time the President is visiting his birthplace after taking on the submit. “Though he desired to visit the place earlier, plans could not materialise because of the pandemic,” the discharge mentioned.
It is after a spot of 15 years that an incumbent President is making a train journey. The final time was in 2006 when Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam boarded a special train from Delhi to Dehradun to attend a passing out parade of cadets on the Indian Military Academy.
The nation’s first President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, typically undertook train journeys. Soon after taking workplace because the President, he visited his birthplace, Ziradei in Bihar’s Siwan. He boarded the President’s special train from Chhapra to attain Ziradei the place he spent three days. He travelled throughout the nation by train, mentioned the discharge.
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