New Delhi, Oct 24(ANI): The visiting King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk, today met Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi.
The Bhutanese King, accompanied by his newly wed wife Jetsun Pema, is on a nine-day state visit to India.
Dressed in conventional Bhutanese attire, Wangchuck and Pema met both the leaders and exchanged a wide range of topics of common interest.
Earlier in the day, he had met Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
The visit comes soon after the 31-year-old Oxford-educated King married the 21-year-old Jetsun Pema, daughter of an airline pilot, in an elaborate ceremony replete with Buddhist mysticism at a monastic fortress in the Punakha city of Bhutan on October 13.
According to government sources, the royal couple would also visit Jaipur, Udaipur, and Jodhpur.
Also figuring in the itinerary is a sojourn at Ranthambore, the home to the famous striped feline beauty - the royal Indian tiger.
The young progressive king is enormously popular, especially among the young, as he aspires to build a better future for Bhutan - a country of just 635,000 population, sandwiched precariously between billions of Indians and Chinese.
This is Wangchuck's fourth visit to India since his coronation in the year 2008.
The royal visit would conclude on October 31. (ANI)
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