New Delhi, Oct 20 : In a nostalgia-filled trip, President Pranab Mukherjee heads to his ancestral village in West Bengal's Birbhum district Saturday for the Durga puja celebrations.
This will be the first time after taking over as president that Mukherjee will be worshipping his family deity as the 'chief priest'.
Mukherjee will Saturday also inaugurate a school building of Mirati Junior High School at Mirati (in Birbhum district), the president's office said here.
On Monday, the president will attend a felicitation ceremony organised by Kirnahar Shib Chandra High School at Kirnahar where he will inaugurate an exhibition on "Pranab's School - School's Pranab".
President Pranab Mukherjee and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had a one-on-one meeting at the VIP lounge of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport today.
Mukherkee arrived by a special plane of the Indian Air Force at around 2.15 pm and was received by Governor M K Narayanan, the chief minister and high officials.
He left by airforce helicopter at 2.55 pm for Kirnahar, where he will stay with his octogenarian elder sister Annapurna Banerjee.
He will worship family deity Devi Durga at his village home at Miriti, 3 km away, for three days from tomorrow.
He will leave for Delhi on October 23.
