President Pranab Mukherjee prays at Kedarnath shrine

TIL Desk/National/Dehradun-President Pranab Mukherjee today paid obeisance at the Kedarnath shrine in Uttarakhand on the second day of his three-day visit to the hill state.

Accompanied by Governor K K Paul and Chief Minister Harish Rawat, the President spent about an hour at the temple offering prayers and taking a round of it, Sri Badrinath-Sri Kedarnath Mandir Samiti CEO V D Singh said.

The President also took stock of the reconstruction work carried out at Kedarnath which bore the brunt of the June 2013 calamity.  It was the President’s first visit to the centuries-old shrine after assuming office. Two of his proposed visits to the temple in the past were cancelled due to bad weather conditions.