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Bengal Guv Jagdeep Dhankar welcomes Modi for renaming Kol port after Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee

| @indiablooms | Jan 12, 2020, at 04:42 pm

Kolkata/UNI: West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who went to the city airport to see off Prime Minister, today lauded Mr Narendra Modi for renaming Kolkata Port Trust after Shyama Prasad Mookerjee.

The prime minister, while addressing the celebration at the Netaji Indoor Stadium of Kolkata Port Trust 150's existence, he announced India's oldest river-rine port to be known as Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Port from now.

Mr Modi said Dr Shayama Prasad Mookerjee was great visionary and a great thinker of modern India along with Dr Baba Ambedkar Saheb.

"At the Airport seeing off the PM. Grateful to PM Modi for very aptly naming Kolkata Port Trust after a great son of West Bengal Shyama Prasad Mookerjee," the governor tweeted.

 

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