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President to visit Gujarat on Monday

By Our Special Correspondent

New Delhi Aug. 9. The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, is to visit Gujarat on Mondday. According a Rashtrapati Bhavan press release, the President "will use the opportunity to learn personally about the rehabilitation measures undertaken by the Government of Gujarat and non-government organisations in the wake of recent disturbances.''

He will also visit the Sabarmati Ashram, as well as fly out to Kutch which experienced a devastating earthquake in January 2001. Being the first presidential visit outside the capital, the Gujarat trip acquires a symbolic dimension. Dr. Kalam will get to see for himself the horrors of communal violence and will hear the charges of governmental complicity. In political terms, Dr. Kalam's Gujarat trip should serve a notice on all those who thought they had got a pliable President.

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