President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Hyderabad on Friday afternoon for a 14-day southern sojourn.
Mukherjee was accorded a warm welcome by Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Governor E S L Narasimhan and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao at the Indian Air Force Station Hakimpet, where the special Indian Air Force plane landed amid tight security.
After alighting from the aircraft the President was driven down to a specially erected pandal, where he was greeted by Telangana Legislative Council Chairman K Swamy Goud, Assembly Speaker S Madhusudhana Chary, Deputy Chief Ministers K Srihari and Mohammad Mahmood Ali, cabinet ministers and officials.
Telangana Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma, Director General of Police Anurag Sharma and other senior officials along with top officers of the armed forces were present.