President Pranab Mukherjee meets Beating Retreat participants

NEW DELHI: President Pranab Mukherjee today met the personnel of the tri-services band contingents who took part in the Beating Retreat ceremony yesterday.

Addressing the officers and jawans, the President congratulated them for their hard work, dedication and extraordinary performance carried out with military precision because of which Republic Day celebrations this year were a grand success.

Mukherjee told them, a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said, that he expected the same dedication and hard work from all of them in the future also.