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Warm reception to Vice-President

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Maiden visit: Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari being received by Governor R.L. Bhatia, Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan and Mayor C. Jayan Babu at the Thiruvananthapuram airport on Wednesday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari, on his first visit to Kerala after being elected to the post, was accorded a warm reception at the air force base forming part of the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport here on Wednesday.

The Vice-President, accompanied by his wife Salma Ansari, was received by Governor R.L. Bhatia, Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, Leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy, Ministers, Mayor C. Jayan Babu and senior civil and police officials. The Vice-President left for Kozhikode after lunch at the Raj Bhavan to inaugurate the 203rd anniversary of the martyrdom of Pazhassi Raja. He returned to the State capital late in the evening.

The Ministers present to receive him were Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac, Industries Minister and Minister-in-Waiting Elamaram Karim, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Vijayakumar, Forest Minister Benoy Viswom and Public Works Minister Mons Joseph.

Members of the Kerala Police presented a guard of honour for the Vice-President.

The Vice-President would inaugurate the international book fair being organised by the Kerala State Institute of Children’s Literature as part of the Grand Kerala Shopping Festival at the Kanakakkunnu Palace Grounds here on Thursday morning.

He would later leave for Thrissur to inaugurate the South Indian Agricultural Exhibition being organised by the Kerala Agricultural University and leave for the national capital from Kochi.

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