Prez Arrives In Assam, Takes Jeep Safari In Kaziranga | Guwahati News – Times of India

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GUWAHATI: President Droupadi Murmu arrived in Assam on a three-day visit on Thursday afternoon ahead of her participation at the annual ‘Gaj Utsav-2023’ (elephant festival) at the Kaziranga National Park, which she will inaugurate on Friday morning.
She flew from New Delhi by a special IAF aircraft to Jorhat airport from where she took a chopper ride to Bokakhat in neighbouring Golaghat district and was received by Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and his cabinet colleagues. Sarma later tweeted, “Welcome to Assam, Adarniya Rashtrapati ji. We are so honoured to have your august presence and blessings.”
The President later took a jeep safari at the national park’s western range at Bagori. She will stay overnight at Kaziranga National Park.
The elephant festival is organised by jointly by the centre and the state government to protect and conserve the Asiatic elephant and find ways to resolve the increasing man-elephant conflict.
Later on Friday evening, she will travel to Guwahati where she will flag off an expedition to Mt Kanchenjunga and attend the platinum jubilee celebrations of the Gauhati High Court. She will leave for Tezpur on Saturday where she will take a sortie on the Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter aircraft at the Air Force station, before leaving for Delhi.

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