President to visit Kolkata on Aug 23-24

New Delhi, Aug 22 (UNI) President Pratibha Devisingh Patil will visit Kolkata for two days from tomorrow.

She is visiting West Bengal for the first time after assuming office at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The President would participate in the celebrations of 225 years of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, tomorrow and the 150 years celebrations of the Uttarpara Jai Krishna Public Library at Hooghly on August 24.

She would return to Delhi after the library function, a Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson said today.

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