Chandigarh: President Pratibha Patil will deliver Dr. V.N. Tewari Memorial Lecture at the Panjab University (PU) here Thursday, officials said here on Wednesday.
Patil will reach the airport here around 10.35 a.m. and would leave the city later in the day.
Chandigarh Police have made sufficient security arrangements to ensure smooth conduct of the president's visit.
"We have deployed security officials all across the city. Some traffic routes will be blocked for some time to make way for the president's cavalcade. However, traffic would be diverted to alternate routes to avoid traffic jams," said a police officer.
A professor, known intellectual at Panjab University and former Rajya Sabha member, V.N. Tewari was killed by terrorists here during early 1980s as terrorism was taking roots in Punjab. His son, Manish Tewari, is the member of the Lok Sabha from Ludhiana in Punjab and also the national spokesman of the Congress party. IANS
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