Paul said foreign VVIPs will be using the ‘Guest Wing' for an hour or so but none of them will stay overnight at the President's House.
The newly refurbished ‘Guest Wing' of the Rashtrapati Bhavan was thrown open earlier this year after two decades and Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and his Queen were the first guests to stay there.
The VVIPs will be staying in these brightly decked up refurbished suites tomorrow in the sprawling Presidential Estate to get a taste of the country's fabled ‘Atithi Devo Bhava' (Guest is God) culture.
At Mukherjee's special initiative, the old glory of Rashtrapati Bhavan, which was formally inaugurated in 1931, was restored.
The VVIP suites are adorned with heavy panelling of exquisite wood, beautiful drapes and classic wall paintings, all brought out from the stores of the Presidential mansion.
The then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who visited Delhi in 1986, was among the last of foreign dignitaries to stay in the ‘Guest Wing'.
Names drawn from rivers such as Brahmaputra and Kaveri and mountain ranges like Vindhya and Shivalik have been used to identify the 14-room wing, housing VVIP and VIP suites, deluxe rooms, rooms for ADCs and standard rooms.
The two most elite suites have been named ‘Nalanda' and ‘Dwarka'.
The officials said the President himself chose the names for the rooms.
Catering to the needs of modern-day diplomatic missions, a special enclosure to function as business centre and a place for communications gadgetry has also been created.
