New Delhi, January 03: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived at the Chennai Airport on Sunday evening on a two-day visit to the city. The special aircraft of the Indian Air Force carrying the Prime Minister touched down at the airport at 7.40 p.m.
Mr. Singh was greeted at the latter point of the tarmac by Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, Mayor M. Subramanian, Chief Secretary S. Malathi, Director General of Police Letika Saran and ADGP (Law and Order) K. Radhakrishnan, Chennai Suburban Police Commissioner S.R. Jankid and Kancheepuram Collector Ashish Chatterjee.
Later at the specially erected dais, he was greeted with shawls and garlands by Union Ministers P. Chidambaram, G.K. Vasan, Dayanidhi Maran and Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K.V. Thangkabalu. State Ministers including K. Anbalagan, K.N. Nehru, M.R.K. Panneerselvam, Poongothai Aladi Aruna and T.M. Anbarasan, and officers from Navy, Army and IAF were among others who greeted him.
More than a hundred State and district-level office-bearers of Congress party were also present. Mr. Singh is in the city to inaugurate the 98th Indian Science Congress at SRM University on Monday morning.
—-Agencies