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President takes buggi to kick off Budget session
1 / 10BJP leaders Venkaiah Naidu, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Rajiv Pratap Rudy waiting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the first day of the Budget session, at Parliament House in New Delhi on Monday. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
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2 / 10President's bodyguards at Parliament House after arriving with President Pranab Mukherjee, on the first day of Budget session, in New Delhi. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
3 / 10President Pranab Mukherjee delivered his address to the joint sitting of the Parliament, whose budget session commenced on Monday. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
4 / 10President Pranab Mukherjee on the first day of the Parliament Session arrived in his buggy. (Source: Express photo by Renuka Puri)
5 / 10In the address, which is mandated before the start of the first session of the year President Mukherjee said Parliament is the sanctum sanctorum of Democracy and the people of have reposed unflinching faith in this institution for fulfilment of their hopes and expectations. (Source: Express photo by Renuka Puri)
6 / 10Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Parliament House, on the first day of the Budget session, on Monday. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
7 / 10Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Cabinet Minister Venkaiah Naidu, Ministers of State Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on the first day of the Budget session, in New Delhi. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
8 / 10President's convoy marching towards the Parliament House on Monday morning. (Express photo by Renuka Puri)
9 / 10The horse-drawn buggy has gold plated rims and is drawn by six horses. It was used by the Viceroy in the pre-Independence era and later remained with the Rashtrapati Bhavan. (Source: Express photo by Renuka Puri)
10 / 10Driver of President Pranab Mukherjee's car, seen with the limousines at the Parliament House, in New Delhi on Monday. (Source: Express photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
