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Pranab Mukherjee sworn in as India's 13th
president
Wednesday July 25, 2012 12:48:10 PM, IANS
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New Delhi: Pranab
Mukherjee was sworn in as India's president at a function replete
with traditional grandeur and ceremony at the Central Hall of
Parliament here Wednesday.
Mukherjee was administered the oath of office by Chief Justice of
India S.H. Kapadia at 11.28 a.m.
In a ceremony lasting about 30 minutes, Mukherjee became India's
13th president - taking over from Pratibha Patil as the new
occupant of Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Mukherjee, who till June 28 was India's finance minister, entered
Parliament House as president-elect around 11.20 a.m., standing
behind Pratibha Patil as she took the final guard of honour from
the President's Bodyguards. And when he exited the impressive
domed structure a short while later, their places had been
switched as Mukherjee took his first salute as the president of
India.
In his oath as president, Mukherjee swore to devote himself to the
service and well being of the people of India.
Attired in a black sherwani and churidar, President Mukherjee in
his first speech said he would in keeping with his high office
strive to rise above partisan interests in the service of the
people.
Saying he was deeply moved by the high honour bestowed on him,
Mukherjee said as the president he would strive to preserve,
protect and guard the constitution "not just in spirit but all
across the divide of party and region".
"I have seen perhaps unbelievable changes during the journey that
has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal
village to the chandeliers of Delhi," he said, recalling his youth
in Mirati village in West Bengal's Birbhum district.
Stating that he had still not forgotten the famine of Bengal as a
boy, Mukherkee said, "There is no humiliation more abusive than
hunger".
Earlier, ahead of his swearing in, he paid tributes at the
mausoleums of Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and
Jawaharlal Nehru.
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