"Never Imagined I Would...": What President Said During Visit To Hometown
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"Wherever I have reached today, the credit goes to the soil of this village, this region, and to your love and blessings," President Ram Nath Kovind said addressing a gathering at the Paraunkh village, which is his birthplace, in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh.
President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday said he had never imagined that an ordinary village boy like him would have the honour of occupying the highest post in the country, and thanked the people of his birth place for this. In a rare emotional gesture, after landing at the helipad near his village, Paraunkh of Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh, President Ram Nath Kovind bowed and touched the soil to pay obeisance to the land of his birth. pic.twitter.com/zx6OhUchSu Some moments of President Kovind visiting his native village Paraunkh in Kanpur Dehat. The President paid tributes to Babasaheb Dr B.R. Ambedkar, visited Milan Kendra & Veerangana Jhalkari Bai Inter College and addressed a Jan Sambodhan Samorah. pic.twitter.com/FQkuh7Aqy7 He was addressing a gathering at the Paraunkh village, which is his birthplace, in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh. The Rashtrapati Bhavan tweeted that in a rare emotional gesture, after landing at the helipad near his village, President Kovind bowed and touched the soil to pay obeisance to the land of his birth.
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