Governor Ram Nath Kovind, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Speaker of Assembly Vijay Kumar Choudhary, Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and other ministers welcomed the President at the Patna airport in the evening, an official release said.
Mukherjee would spend the night at Raj Bhavan and leave tomorrow for Rajgir where he would confer degrees on 12 students of the first batch of the university.
The President, who is the university's Visitor, would also give gold medals to two students on the occasion.
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