Guwahati: President Ram Nath Kovind will be on a three-day visit to Assam starting from February 25.
Kovind will inaugurate the year-long celebration to mark the 400th birth anniversary of legendary Ahom general Lachit Borphukan. He will also review the conservation efforts at Kaziranga National Park .
“We extended an invitation to the honourable President for the visit and he consented to our request,” Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
The President will also lay the foundation for a memorial of the Alaboi Battle at Dodora in Kamrup, Sarma added.
On February 26, the President will attend the convocation ceremony of Tezpur University at Tezpur, from where he will proceed to Kaziranga the same day.