The lunch was attended, among others, by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, Union Ministers Salman Khurshid, G K Vasan, Jayanthi Natarajan and the entire Tamil Nadu cabinet besides Speaker D Jaykumar and various Consulate representatives stationed in Chennai.
Eminent violinist and Padma Bhusan recipient TN Krishnan played some noted carnatic and Tamil numbers.
Earlier, DMK leader MK Stalin and Party MPs including TR Baalu met the President at the Raj Bhavan.