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Governor hosts banquet for President

Special Correspondent.

Presidents visits Salar Jung museum

-Photo G. Krishnaswamy

Get together: President Pratibha Patil, with her husband, Devisingh Shekhawat, and family members with Governor Narain Dutt Tiwari in Hyderabad on Sunday.

HYDERABAD: The President Pratibha Patil on Sunday evening attended a banquet hosted by the Governor Narayan Dutt Tiwari in the pristine environs of the Raj Bhavan.

Prominent among those present at the dinner were Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chairman, Legislative Council A. Chakrapani, acting Chief Justice Bilal Nazki and almost the entire Cabinet of ministers and the Chief Minister’s Advisor K.V.P. Ramchander Rao.

Top officials from every department including the armed forces too were present.

Museum visit

The historic Salar Jung Museum had a VVIP visitor on Sunday when the President Prathibha Patil visited the museum along with her spouse and other family members.

The occasion was quite memorable considering that the last time the President visited the museum was way back in 1968 when the then President Zakir Hussain came and also inaugurated a building block.

The museum was decked up today with the Presidential visit after a gap of four decades.

Great interest

The Salar Jung Museum Director, A.K.V.S Reddy, in a press release here, said that the President had shown great interest in galleries of the founders, European paintings, Chinese, Japanese, Rebecca, Jade, Ivory, glass, porcelain and the famous clocks collection.

Making her remarks in the Visitor’s Book, Ms. Patil praised the museum for its collection and said the collection has to be preserved carefully for the future generations.

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