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New Delhi: Setting a new practice, President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday entered the new Parliament Building escorted by Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla with an official carrying the ‘Sengol,’ adopted as a cultural symbol by the government.
Ahead of President Murmu’s arrival, Rajeev Sharma, a senior Marshal in the Lok Sabha and dressed in traditional attire with decorated scarf and a turban, removed the Sengol and walked in a procession with Speaker Birla, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi and Secretaries General of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Utpal Kumar Singh and P C Mody in tow amid drum rolls.
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