President Pratibha Patil left behind her limousine and used a small electric car to go around the Raj Bhavan grounds while on a visit to Itanagar in the first week of April.
As the presidential entourage was getting ready to leave for a forward post called Kibithu near the Sino-Indian border on Friday, 3 April, 2009, an India-made ‘Reva’ car with the Ashoka emblem mounted on it was parked ahead of all the other cars.
Arunachal Pradesh Governor General (retd) J.J. Singh said he would take the President on a tour of the grounds in the car to show her a new golf course besides an organic farm.
“The car is environment friendly and can be easily driven by me inside the Raj Bhavan,” said the Governor about the two cars, which have clocked more than 20,000 km each.
When the President came out, the Governor escorted her to a white-coloured car and himself took the wheels. Separately, President Patil’s husband Devi Singh Shekhawat was driven around in a red car for nearly half an hour. A security official ran along them.
Source: PTI
