President Ramnath Kovind praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his extraordinary commitment towards duty and his contemporary thinking.
Kovind admired PM Modi in context to illustrious Gujarat’s sons who contributed for the nation building including Sardar Patel, Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Dayanand Saraswati and former PM Morarji Desai during his speech after he gave ‘Santokba Humanitarian Award’ to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi as well as former chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) AS Kiran Kumar along with Rs 1 crore each at Surat on Tuesday.
The President admitted that he came to attend the award function organised by Shree Rama Krishna Knowledge (SRKK) Foundation by breaking tradition of Rashtrapati Bhavan. He said that generally the President wouldn’t attend functions of private organisations.