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President Droupadi Murmu and PM Narendra Modi with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto astatine the Republic Day 'At home' ceremonial astatine the Rashtrapati Bhavan. (Express photograph by Renuka Puri)
At the banquet hosted by President Droupadi Murmu connected Saturday evening, visiting Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto said, “I person Indian DNA.” Flanked by PM Narendra Modi and Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar astatine the precocious table, the visiting President dwelt astatine magnitude connected the past civilisation ties betwixt the 2 countries, adding that helium would similar to spot “Indonesia and India continuing to beryllium adjacent partners and friends.”
“I would similar to study to the President, Vice-President, Prime Minister… that a fewer weeks ago, I had my familial sequencing trial and my DNA test, and they archer maine I person Indian DNA. And everybody knows erstwhile I perceive Indian music, I commencement dancing.. it indispensable beryllium portion of my make-up,” the President tin beryllium heard saying, successful a video shared by the President’s bureau connected Sunday morning.
Subianto besides spoke astir however helium wanted to larn from India successful presumption of its poorness alleviation drive. “I americium not a nonrecreational politician, not a bully diplomat. I accidental what’s successful my heart. I (have) travel present (for a) fewer days but I learnt a lot… from PM Modi’s leadership, programme and your committedness to alleviate poverty, to assistance the marginalised and the weakest portion of your nine is an inspiration for us.”
#WATCH | Delhi: A delegation from Indonesia sang Bollywood opus ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ astatine the banquet hosted by President Droupadi Murmu successful honour of Prabowo Subianto, President of Indonesia astatine Rashtrapati Bhavan. The delegation included elder Indonesian ministers.
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Later successful the evening, a delegation from Indonesia — comprising respective ministers — sang the 1998 fashionable Bollywood opus ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, overmuch to the astonishment of those contiguous there.
President Droupadi Murmu, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto astatine the Republic time ceremony. (Express Photo/ Renuka Puri)
Welcoming President Subianto connected his archetypal State Visit to India, the President said that civilisational ties betwixt India and Indonesia spell backmost thousands of years. “The values of pluralism, inclusiveness and regularisation of instrumentality are communal to some countries and these shared values person fixed absorption to our modern relations,” she said.
She besides recalled “the millennia-old civilisational links betwixt India and Indonesia”, including the ‘Bali Jatra’ observed successful Odisha, which commemorates the journeys undertaken by Indian seafarers and traders successful past times from India to Bali and different regions of the Indo-Pacific. Murmu besides noted that Indonesia is simply a cardinal pillar of India’s ‘Act East’ argumentation and Indo-Pacific Vision.
On Sunday morning, the 76th Republic Day celebrations on Kartavya Path besides saw Indonesia’s Genderang Suling Canka Lokananta, a 190-member ensemble set from the Indonesian Military Academy (Akmil), that embodies subject and subject tradition. The band’s name, derived from Sanskrit, translates to “trumpet” and “heavenly sound,” reflecting its melodious and symbolic nature. They utilized instruments specified arsenic snare drums, trumpets, and flutes.
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