President, PM pay tributes to Zakir Hussain

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President Pranab Mukherjee paying floral tributes at the portrait of the former President of India, Dr. Zakir Hussain on his Birth Anniversary, in New Delhi on 08 Feb 2015. (Photo - PIB)
President Pranab Mukherjee paying floral tributes at the portrait of the former President of India, Dr. Zakir Hussain on his Birth Anniversary, in New Delhi on 08 Feb 2015. (Photo – PIB)

New Delhi :

President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday paid tributes to former president Zakir Hussain on his birth anniversary.

“The president, officers and staff paid floral tributes in front of a portrait of Zakir Hussain in the Ashoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan,” said a statement from the president’s house.

Modi said in a statement: “I pay my tributes to India’s former president, the illustrious scholar and freedom fighter, Zakir Hussain on his birth anniversary.”

Zakir Hussain was the country’s first Muslim president and the third president from May 13, 1967 till his death May 3, 1969.

He was conferred the Bharat Ratna in 1963.

(IANS)

source: http://www.indiatomorrow.net / India Tomorrow / Home / February 08th, 2015